A beautiful face is temporary

But that night in her dream she flew high above the earth in a moonless sky. Behind her, like a falling star, sailed a silver sled.

God may create us but we Define

Which is worse? Loving someone and not being able to be with them or not loving someone and having to be with them.

Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.

He lifted me up and held me close against him, my head on his shoulder. At that moment I loved him. In the morning light he was as golden, as soft, as gentle as myself, and he would protect me.

The thing that distinguishes permanent poverty is bad character.

Give me faith, Lord, to know Your Presence as surely as I know the beating of my own heart. I've felt so far from You.

Celebrity watching and speculation is almost like a sport.

I made three works about men in my life. But I had much more than three men. I never wrote about them.

And mighty poets in their misery dead.