The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.

The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.

No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.

It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are... ...We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

That was my way of putting it-not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings.