“There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me”

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?

A light here required a shadow there.

Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

I am rooted, but I flow.

And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.

And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.

Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.

I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.

How sweet to be a Cloud. Floating in the Blue!

All Birds find shelter during a rain. But Eagle avoids rain by flying above the Clouds. Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference!

As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.

I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.

As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.