I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.