“Don't seek the water; get thirst.”
“You know what love is?It is all kindness, generosity.”
“Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.”
“This is not a day for asking questions, not a day on any calendar. This day is conscious of itself. This day is a lover, bread, and gentleness, more manifest than saying can say.”
“This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all!”
“From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet.”
“Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.”
“Leave that which is not,but appears to be.Seek that which is,but is not apparent.”
“I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft.”
“This liberty is all that I request.”
“...and then, in dreaming, / The clouds methought would open and show riches / Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked / I cried to dream again.”
“Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench; I love her ten times more than e'er I did: O, how I long to have some chat with her!”
“No profit grows where no pleasure is taken.”
“O, the blood more stirsTo rouse a lion than to start a hare!”
“The sweat of industry would dry and die,But for the end it works to.”
“Is this the generation of love? Hot blood, hot thoughts and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers. Is love a generation of vipers?”
“The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.”
“Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.”
“Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings.... Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you're sometimes crescent, sometimes full.”
“There is only one search: wandering... no dogma and no heresy.”
“Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet I'm already under and living within the ocean.”
