And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses - would you not then still have your ….

What keeps you from... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy?.

The most visible joy can only reveal itself to us when we've transformed it, within..

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming….

If my devils are to leave me, I'm afraid my angels will take flight as well..

Always trust yourself and your own feelings, as opposed to arguments and discussions. If it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of ….

Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments..

It was not in me It came and went I wanted to hold it It was held by wine (I no longer know what it was).

Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at….

It is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is ….

Bound by conventions, people tend to reach for what is easy. Here we must be unafraid of what is difficult. For all living beings in nature must unfo….

To all that is used-up, and to all the muffled and dumb creatures in the world's full reserve, the unsayable sums, joyfully add yourself, and cancel ….

Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness..

My loving friend, you see, my life was never given a foundation, no one was able to imagine what it would want to become. In Venice there stands the ….

Space for the Spirit to breathe..

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack..

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..

Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no wor….

There would have to be bread, some rich, whole-grain bread and zwieback, and perhaps on a long, narrow dish some pale Westphalian ham laced with stri….

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult..

Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men….