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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief the more will reality ...more

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It was not in me It came and wentI wanted to hold it It was held by wine(I no longer know what it was)

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I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.

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You darkness, that I come from,I love you more than all the firesthat fence in the world,for the fire makesa circle of light for everyone,and then no ...more

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It is always what I have already said: always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and simplicity enough to believe; that...more

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Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you.Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you.And without feet I can make my way to you,without a mouth I can swear y...more

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Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain?

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You who never arrived in my arms, Beloved, who were lost from the start, I don't even know what songs would please you. I have given up trying to reco...more

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This is the creature there has never been.They never knew it, and yet, none the less,they loved the way it moved, its suppleness,its neck, its very ga...more

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we want it visible to showwhen even the most visible joy will reveal itselfonly when we have transformed it within.there’s nowhere, my love, the wo...more

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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 hal...more

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I live my life in growing orbits which move out over the things of the world.

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Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you, like the winter that has just gone by. For among these winters there is one so endlessl...more