Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.

Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.

We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love.

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.

Forge in the smithy of your soul.

Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union

Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.