Renunciation is submission to time.
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.
Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.
Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.
The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors.