“In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.”

As quoted in Homelessness in America : A Forced March to Nowhere (1982), p. 121
Context: You will find out that Charity is a heavy burden to carry, heavier than the kettle of soup and the full basket. But you will keep your gentleness and your smile. It is not enough to give soup and bread. This the rich can do. You are the servant of the poor, always smiling and good-humored. They are your masters, terribly sensitive and exacting master you will see and the uglier and the dirtier they will be, the more unjust and insulting, the more love you must give them. It is only for your love alone that the poor will forgive you the bread you give to them.

Source: Daddy-Long-Legs

Letter to Cassandra (1811-04-18) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters

Keynote speech at the Career Days https://fosmedia.me/infos/drustvo/otvoreni-dani-karijere, 29 March 2018.

The Last Lecture (2007)

Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 265.