Angels often do now know whether they walk among the dead or living.
Art too is just a way of living.
Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief the more will reality and the world go forth f...
For we, when we feel, evaporate: oh, webreathe ourselves out and away: from ember to ember,yielding us fainter fragrance.
Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past.
Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.
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 and the world go forth from it.
Success which is something so simple in the end is made up of thousands of things we never fully know what.
Already the ripening barberries are redAnd the old asters hardly breathe in their beds.The man who is not rich now as summer goesWill wait and wait and never be himself.The man who cannot quietly clos...
The more we speak of solitude, the clearer it becomes that at the bottom it is not something one can choose to take or leave. We are lonely. One can deceive oneself about it and act as if it were not...
Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
It seems to him there area thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world.
Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns.
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 endlessly winterthat only by wintering through it will you...
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 one outside learns of you.But the darkness pulls i...
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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)
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
Wanting to change to improve a person's situation means offering him for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.
A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist a w...