We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will be darkened with sea water. They will float for a moment and then sink. Rolling over the waves will shoulder me under. Everything falls in a tremendous shower, dissolving me.

it is strange how the dead leap out on us at street corners, or in dreams

Would there be trees if we didn't see them?

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

For now she need not think of anybody. She coud be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.