A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon.

Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.

I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.

In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head.

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.

nothing now exists that is so valuable as whatever theoretically might replace it.

A shepherd may like to travel, but he should never forget his sheep.

Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age.

During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.

Don't let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think that the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another door - if we seek it.

I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.

Let us first teach little children to breathe, to vibrate, to feel, and to become one with the general harmony and movement of nature. Let us first produce a beautiful human being, a dancing child.

The English kill their meat twice: once when they slaughter it and once when they cook it.

Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.

Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to -day as when they first passed through their authors' minds ages ago.

Humility sets us free to do what is really good, by showing us our illusions and withdrawing our will from what was only an apparent good.