Love humiliates you, hatred cradles you.

She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.

The phoenix must burn to emerge.

Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.

You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you

Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun.

I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.

I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.

Oleander time, she said. Lovers who kill each other now will blame it on the wind.

Her hatred glittered irresistibly. I could see it, the jewel, it was sapphire, it was the cold lakes of Norway.

Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.

The way to my heart is through your heart.

All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them but what is universal.

The image of a community is fundamentally important to its economic well-being. If all places look alike, there's no reason to go anywhere.

Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

The Packers have lots of owners nobody knows instead of one owner who doesnt know squat.

...The evidence that fluoridation of the public water supply at the rate of one part per million is carcinogenic is irrefutable.

Pleasures don't last like the snow falls in the river, a moment white - then melts for ever.

If you think small, your world will be small. If you think big, your world will be big.

My religion is a religion of sharing, not of following

Democrat women lead the way in showing other women how to be stepped on and diminished by men. That's what they do, for a payoff somewhere down the line.