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Here she was again, she thought… drawn out of gossip, out of living, out of community with people into the presence of this formidable ancient enemy of hers—this other thing, this truth, this reality, which suddenly laid hands on her….

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

....no woman he had ever met compared in any way with Gloria. She was deeply herself; she was immeasurably sincere...

Opening wide to the fullness of life, Cézanne felt himself to be the conduit where nature and humanity met—“The landscape thinks itself in me…I am its consciousness.”

Lou (1921): ...the core compulsions of the creative artist clearly reappear in the schizophrenic--that in both of them, active and passive, seeing and shaping are incomprehensibly the same, creation is as little to be halted or held in abeyance as in revelation itself: for both still proceed as one, undivided, behind all that which, in the name of rationality, separates subject and reality into two different things.

Rilke, 1903: “Oh what a solitary (Rodin) is: sunk in himself, he stands full of sap like an ancient tree in autumn. He has grown deep… he bares his heart to what is important, and is all openness when he is among things… What he gazes at and surrounds with gazing is always for him the only thing, the present thing, the one world in which everything happens.”