“And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?”

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.

The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.

We must discover security within ourselves.

That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

The unarmed power of naked truth.

The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.

An unshared happiness is not happiness.

The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.

It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.

Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees’ hypocrisy.

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.