Father, you died once, salted down at fifty-nine, packed down like a big snow angel, wasn't that enough?

Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.

I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.

Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.

Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.

O starry night, This is how I want to die

O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat, let me be feverish and frowning.

Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on writing!

It's important to know what you think, my dear, or else you will be so hemmed in by other people's ideas and opinions, you won't have room for your own.

Anyone can be passionate but it takes real lovers to be silly.

To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says 'He may be difficult so let's avoid him.'

Something you hear a lot is that feminism dead. But if feminism is dead, why do people try so hard to kill it?

You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.

Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.

I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.

In the embers shining bright A garden grows for thy delight, With roses yellow, red, and white. But, O my child, beware, beware! Touch not the roses growing there, For every rose a thorn doth bear.

I could not possibly overstate the need for an urgent response.