Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl!

Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody.

In your beauty, how to make poems.

I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.