“I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.”

“Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.”

“I feel in an executioner mood, I am going to punish him and punish him slowly.”

“I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky.”

“blossoming are people…
all the earth has turned to sky
…and i am you are i am we”

“I am still of [the] opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood--sex and the dead.”

“Schiller writes in a letter [to Goethe, 17 December 1795] of a ‘poetic mood’. I think I know what he means, I think I am familiar with it myself. It is the mood of receptivity to nature and one in which one’s thoughts seem as vivid as nature itself.”

“6 AM. The sky glows. Somewhere a bird chirps. I want to shoot it.”

“I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.”

“I am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky!
How beautiful thou art!”