What your foes do derives its significance or consequence from the way you react.

Articulation lags behind experience. That doesn’t go well with the psyche. Sentiments, nuances, thoughts, perceptions that remain nameless, unable to be voiced and dissatisfied with approximations, get pent up within an individual and may lead to a psychological explosion or implosion.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful.

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

Without the sense of collaborating with like-minded beings in the pursuit of the ever unattainable in art and scientific research, my life would have been empty.

It is the hour to be drunken! To escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.