In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing I.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak... It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.

When the image is new, the world is new.

Our house is our corner of the world.

Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.

Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.

My body is holy temple.

He put his arms around me. We were both feeling miserable. How were we to know we were happy, even then? Because we at least had that: arms, around.

I understand it is 13-8 against Egon Ronay publishing a Good Betting Shop Food Guide by 1997.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

National honor is national property of the highest value.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

I guess I'm not a professional's professional. I think I'd rather go to the dentist than play a practice round.

God can rid your heart of greed, but it's your responsibility to remove yourself from situations that promote greediness.

I never cared what kind of grade I got.