Born Quote by Paul Klee

Do work of all kinds with a mind that is void and to the voidness surrender all of the fruits.

— Buddhadasa

What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

— Paul Klee

What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush…

— Andrew Marvell

The sense of being led by an unseen hand which takes mine, while another hand reaches ahead and prepares the way, grows upon me…

— Frank Laubach

The world that was not mine yesterday now lies spread out at my feet, a splendor. I seem, in the middle of the night,…

— John Cheever

But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without…

— Gustav Mahler

For so long I have lived on the edge of an invisible world. Sometimes I feel like the scattered debris left over after the…

— Steve Rasnic Tem

What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?

— Arthur Rimbaud

“Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of sunbeams. Press the soft blossoms against your cheek, and finger their graces of form, their…

— Helen Keller

A thrumming of piano-strings beyond the gardens and through the elms. At length the melody steals into my being. I know not when it…

— Henry David Thoreau

With every glance I take in the 'negative-positive' of existence and the inevitability of impermanence to its glowing limits. Alone and haunted, I trust…

— Christophe Agou