The soul has words as petals.

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?

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

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.

Anyone who truly grasps the fact of limited time curses the patience blesses the hastiness!

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

gratitude, n. A sentiment lying midway between a benefit received and a benefit expected.

If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure.

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

When you start with next to nothing, all you've got is a lot of thought, a lot of innovation, figuring new ways to do things without using a lot of money.

Half Europe thought... that with the Pope the Papacy was dead.

Don't ask me for answers, I've only got one. That a man leaves the darkness, when he follows the Son.

You would think that as you get older you would be more disciplined. As I get older I get less disciplined. I just play around!

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.