From two ears that had grown side by side, the grains of one shot up joyfully into the light, projecting themselves into the future, and the grains from the other lay still in the earth and rotted; and nobody knew why.

A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.

People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.

It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.