“Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.”
“About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.”
“I'm beginning to think that you aren't with child. You've simply become fat after reading too many recipes.”
“The child alone a poet is:Spring and Fairyland are his.”
“I know it's beyond what you can bear, child. You must not try to carry this alone.”
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”