“It’s very difficult sometimes to put into words one’s feelings, especially when one is not quite certain what those feelings are. (Catherine)”
“one can’t hold one’s tongue when one has a feeling, a tangible feeling”
“Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult”
“It is very difficult sometimes to keep awake, especially at church, but there is no difficulty at all about sleeping.”
“Shudder, in fact, is not quite the word for the feeling. Feeling is not quite the word for the feeling. How's bathing at knifepoint in the phlegm of the dead? Is that a feeling?”
“To feel one’s attachment to a certain region, one’s love for acertain group of men, to know that there is always a spot whereone’s heart will feel at peace these are many certainties for a singlehuman life. And yet this is not enough. But at certain momentseverything yearns for that spiritual home”