“It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth.”
“Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.”
“Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy.”
“I would venture a guess that an artist concentrating wholly unself-consciously, wholly thrown into his work, is incapable of producing pornography.”
“On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.”
“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”