if i can only recount the story of my life right out of my body flames will grow

Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach you.

Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.

Walk out like someone suddenly born into colour. Do it now.

You could string a hundred endless days together, My soul would find no comfort from this pain. You laugh at my tale? You may be educated But you haven’t learned to love till you’re insane

Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean. Listen, O drop, bestow upon yourself this honor, and in the arms of the Sea be secure. Who indeed should be so fortunate? An Ocean wooing a drop! In God's name, in God's name, sell and buy at once! Give a drop, and take this Sea full of pearls.

We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.