“I dont regret anything I was before because I still am.I only regret not having loved you.Put your hands in mineAnd lets be quiet, surrounded by life.”

“To love is to think.And I almost forget to feel only from thinking about her.I dont know what I want at all, even from her, and I dont think about anything but her.I have a great animated distracti...”

“The amorous shepherd has lost his staff,And his sheep are straying on the hillside,And he didnt even play the flute he brought to play because he was thinking so much.No one came to him or went awa...”

“She goes on with her beautiful hair and mouth like before,I go on like before, alone in the field.Its like my head had been lowered,And if I think this, and raise my headAnd the golden sun dries th...”

“I don’t regret anything I was before because I still am.I only regret not having loved you.Put your hands in mineAnd let’s be quiet, surrounded by life.”

“I don’t know how to talk because I’m feeling.I’m listening to my voice as if it were someone else’s,And my voice is speaking about her as if she were speaking.She has hair as blond as yellow wheat ...”

“You have no choice. You must leave your ego on the doorstep before you enter love.”

“Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.”

“As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of E...”

“The spiritual life to me has always meant just one thing: feeling.”

“since feeling is firstwho pays any attentionto the syntax of thingswill never wholly kiss you;wholly to be a foolwhile Spring is in the worldmy blood approves,and kisses are a far better fatethan w...”

“Shes kept her love for him as alive as the summer they first met. In order to do this, shes turned life away. Sometimes she subsists for days on water and air. Being the only known complex life-for...”