Symbols are the language of something invisible spoken in the visible world.

- Gertrud Von Le Fort

Not alone is the child born through the mother, but the mother also is born through the child.

- Gertrud Von Le Fort

The louder our world today is, the deeper God seems to remain in silence. Silence is the language of eternity; noise passes.

- Gertrud Von Le Fort

The point of departure for my creation was not primarily the destiny of the sixteen Carmelites of Compiègne but the figure of the young Blanche. In a…

- Gertrud Von Le Fort