“I go forth to seek —
To seek and claim the lovely magic garden
Where grasses softly sigh and Muses speak.”

Haunts Of Ancient Peace
Song lyrics, Common One (1980)

It – How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It (2008, Zondervan)

Source: The Eye of the Heron (1978), Chapter 5 (p. 77)

"Love in Autumn"
Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)

Source: The General in His Labyrinth

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Context: Love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we lack the courage to reach out a hand and pluck the fruit from the branches of the tree of life. We have to take love where we find it, even if it means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.
The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us.
And to save us.

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 230