“Solitude may rust your words.”

“Rust rust rust
in the engines of love and time”

“There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering.”

“Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.”

“Never forget that solitude is my lot… I implore those who love me to love my solitude."

(, May 11, 1910)”

“One must learn an inner solitude, wherever one may be.”

“These hearts rust just as iron rusts; and indeed they are polished through the recitation of the Qur’an.”

“Time's corrosive dewdrop eats
The giant warrior to a crust
Of earth in earth and rust in rust.”

“You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.”

“Language has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.”