“Feeling goes higher and deeper, is at the same time more instinctive and animal, and more divine.”

Giving feeling a range that reaches from instinct to the spiritual · Gathered Leaves, letters and diaries, 1897–1907

• Faith
• Truth

“There are some words that are like a flight of steps that end in mid-air, and there is nothing but the sky above them.”

Describing language that carries thought to the edge of the unsayable · Gathered Leaves, letters and diaries, 1897–1907

• Poetry
• Truth

“It is like a little ray of candle-light by which darkness becomes visible. But the joy of love is sunshine.”

Contrasting the faint light of intellect with the fullness of love · Gathered Leaves, letters and diaries, 1886

• Joy
• Love