Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. In order to arrive at what you do not know You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance. In order to possess what you do not possess You must go by the way of dispossession. In order to arrive at what you are not You must go through the way in which you are not. And what you do not know is the only thing you know And what you own is what you do not own And where you are is where you are not.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl.' —Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence. Od' und leer das Meer.

Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.

What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.

One starts an action simply because one must do something.