“Tears do not burn except in solitude.”
“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
“If they burn your school, burn their children, if they destroy your buildings destroy their people if they tear down your homes tear down their families.”
“We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine.”
“Compassionate love may be strong. It sobs, it burns, then it wipes away its tears – and it does nothing.”
“I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.”