Let your beauty manifest itself without talking and calculation.​ You are silent. It says for you: I am. And comes in meaning thousandfold​, comes at long last over everyone.

The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

The nature of the kingdom must mature within you

That’s the problem with peace. Peace make you careless.

People who understand the dark understand the universe, and therefor they can connect their soul so life can give them the uplifting mystic it has.

The cure for grief is motion.

One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is "Whatever you do, don't be boring."

It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.

The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state of mind when I'm vacuuming.

The young are just as opinionated as the old, but have more exciting things to do than sit around airing their opinions all day.

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

I like theme parks. The fastest roller coaster I've ever been on is at a casino in Nevada.