"She who reconciles the ill-matched threadsOf her life, and weaves them gratefullyInto a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hallAnd clears it for a different celebration."
"There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult."
"I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future."
"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."
"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."
"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."