"The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty."
"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming."
"Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life."
"I don't want to go on being a root in the dark,vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep,downward, in the soaked guts of the earth,absorbing and thinking, eating each day."
"I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases....."
"As if you were on fire from within.The moon lives in the lining of your skin."