Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.
Adolescents believe that the world belongs to the living, or more particularly to living people their age, so they feel within their rights if they destroy the canon or rewrite the fairy stories or act like Red Guards.
I knew this friendship with myself couldn’t last forever.
It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.
Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.
Before I was a parent I was struck by Rilke, who, as you know, didn't go to his daughter's wedding because he was writing a poem that day. That was the ideal for artistic behavior in 1950. That's the way I wanted to live.