The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.
To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith
Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.
Water is the soul of the Earth.
We were put on this Earth to help others. Why others were put here is beyond me.
We were put on this earth to make things.
I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky.
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying meaning: "I refuse to be what I am."
Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.
A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.
There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.
See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking.
A small grove massacred to the last ash, An oak with heart-rot, give away the show: This great society is going to smash; They cannot fool us with how fast they go, How much they cost each other and the gods. A culture is no better than its woods.
To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.
A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.
Now is the age of anxiety.
What answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise one's gifts?
All I have is a voice.
What we have not named as a symbol escapes our notice.
I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.
All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our time, is only a letter written to oneself.
The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men, left to themselves, become gnostics. They may swagger like peacocks, but in their heart of hearts they all think sex an indignity and wish they could beget themselves on themselves. Hence the aggressive hostility toward women so manifest in most club-car stories.
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