Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.

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

In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.

I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing.

Between the vision and the act lies the shadow.

He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face, no name, nothing; and the words, the poem he makes, are a kind of exorcism of this demon.

I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.