"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."
"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 purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink."
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
"Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse."
"The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man"