A poet’s mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.
Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
I have been trying for a long time to understand God. Now I have made friends with him. To love him truly you must love change, and you must love a joke, these being the true inclinations of his own heart.
Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.
All suffering is bearable if it is seen as part of a story.
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
You can’t change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.