"So every day I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth of the ideas of God,one of which was you."

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

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

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

"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…"

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

"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…"