“You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it neverRises from the soul, and swaysThe heart of every single hearer,With deepest power, in simple ways.You’ll sit forever, gluing things together,Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps,Blowing on a miserable fire,Made from your heap of dying ash.Let apes and children praise your art,If their admiration’s to your taste,But you’ll never speak from heart to heart,Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.”

“What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.”

“If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.”

“Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.”

“Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.”

“There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.”

“nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.”