The swift years slip and slide adown the steep; The slow years pass; neither will come again.

Go to the winter woods: listen there, look, watch, and "the dead months" will give you a subtler secret than any you have yet found in the forest.

The swift years slip and slide adown the steep; The slow years pass; neither will come again.

My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.

The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.

In the beginning, said a Persian poet Allah took a rose, a lily, a dove, a serpent, a little honey, a Dead Sea apple, and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgram it was a woman.

The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.