For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.

Through the ear, we shall enter the invisibility of things.

How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)

Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know this.

We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.

One rose is enough for the dawn

Always in a foreign country, the poet uses poetry as an interpreter.

Ah, the sun will catch me, in my disturbing transparency. What am I but an awareness of the dark, forever?

To whom to speak when the other no longer is? The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place.

My hands are full when you give me your hand.

As long as we are not chased from our words we have nothing to fear. As long as our utterances keep their sound we have a voice. As long as our words keep their sense we have a soul.

Where we choose to be, where we choose to be--we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being.

Love others as much as you can, as often as you can, and as deeply as you can. Never forget to love yourself.

The horrible monsters in this world are the ones that wear human face

I'll be an artist one day because my creator's masterpiece leaves me perplexed.

I'm not asking the public to trust me I'm asking the public to trust themselves.

I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.

Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.

See simplicity in the complicated. Achieve greatness in little things

An artwork should point in more than one direction, not be this sort of placating, self-demonstrating, witnessing element.

You can not hope to arrive at harmony in your life while stirring up disturbances in anothers.