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Nothing touches a work of art so little as criticism.
Go into yourself. Dig into yourself for a deep answer
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart.
Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading!
Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly.
There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.
I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough
Painting is something that takes place among the colors.
Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.
Shattered people are best represented by bits and pieces.
Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.
Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things
I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
I want to love the things as no one has thought to love them.
Stand up during supper and walk outdoors, and keep on walking.
Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.
Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you.
There is time only to work slowly There is no time not to love
We are not permitted to linger, even with what is most intimate.
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
What we do battle with is so small, what battles us is so large.
Trees do not force their sap, nor does the flower push its bloom.
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
What happens most deeply inside you is worthy of your whole love.
Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure.
To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one.
My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing.
One moment your life is a stone in you, and the next moment a star!
I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.
I am the rest between two notes which are somehow always in discord.
Do not be bewildered by the surfaces: in the depths all becomes law.
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.
Nearly everything that matters is a challenge, and everything matters.
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
What is happening on your innermost self is worthy of your entire love.
But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere.
One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance.
There are moments in which a rose is more important than a piece of bread
Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence.
I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.
...a carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness.
No one can advise and help you, no one. There is only one way: go within.