A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering... - Rainer Maria Rilke

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

"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other."

"But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all. Once for each thing. Just once; no more. And we too, just once. And never again. But to have been this once, completely, even if only once: to have been at one with the earth, seems beyond undoing."

"Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write."

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