I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

The work of creation is never without travail.

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

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.