“There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.”

“There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.”

“Beauty is the splendor of truth.”

“I didn't ask any questions. Everything I wanted to know was written in tortured phrases across the desolation of her face. It didn't look like insanity to me. It looked like fear, the terrible fear screaming from her big hungered eyes, alert now from the drug.”

“A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance.”

“The splendor of Silence,—of snow-jeweled hills and of ice.”

“I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.”

“How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!”

“There, all is order and beauty only,
Splendor, peace, and pleasure.”

“The buttercups across the field
Made sunshine rifts of splendor.”