 I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. |
| All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. |
| Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. |
| There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult. |
| The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. |
| For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. |
| Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further. |
| This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess. |
| More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed. |
| Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. |
| The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things. |
| It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning. |
| Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. |
| I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. |
| I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. |
| Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. |
