The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.

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.

She who heals herself, heals others.

I wanted to protect the songs. I wanted to make sure I could write freely and not be self-conscious about it.

I grow aware of various forms of man and of myself. I am form and I am formless, I am life and I am matter, mortal and immortal. I am one and many -- myself and humanity in flux.

Our own body is the best health system we have-if we know how to listen to it.

If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.

We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.

In good writing, words become one with things.

I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

Family fun is as necessary to modern living as a kitchen refrigerator.