“Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.”
“I suppose because our hearts are made in a certain way we cannot help being what we are.”
“I'm not exactly certain what got into me, besides him.”
“You cannot be certain of what you create.”
“I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”
“In relationship to God one can not involve himself to a certain degree. God is precisely the contradiction to all that is 'to a certain degree'.”