There are a large number of people in the room, but one is unaware of them. They are in the books. At times they move among the pages, like sleepers turning over between two dreams. Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.
Bibliothèque Nationale. Ich sitze und lese einen Dichter. Es sind viele Leute im Saal, aber man spürt sie nicht. Sie sind in den Büchern. Manchmal bewegen sie sich in den Blättern, wie Menschen, die schlafen und sich umwenden zwischen zwei Träumen.
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.
I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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.
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.
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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.
