"I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing."
"We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form."
"Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough."
"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."
"The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man"
"Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity"