"then you too are a dream which last night and the night before that and the years before that you were not."

"I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything — other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learne…"

"The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power re…"

"Am I not among the early risers and the long-distance walkers? Have I not stood, amazed, as I consider the perfection…"

"What countries, what visitations, what pomp would satisfy me as thoroughly as Blackwater Woods on a sun-filled mornin…"

"Here is an amazement –– once I was twenty years old and in every motion of my body there was a delicious ease, and in…"

"Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?"

"Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled — to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to fl…"

"To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones know…"

"You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. …"