Poet

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.

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.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.

The only journey is the one within.

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

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

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.

There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.