Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.

If you're imaginatively responsible to the place you live in, you understand the watershed.

The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too

Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it and our place in it- if we are going to preserve it.

Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the grain of nature, turning with it.

Why do I need to have reasons? When someone decides to have a baby, people don't go around asking what her reasons are.

To have a real and long lasting relation partners should either have mutual goal or possess the same capabilities.

How muchI want you, I don't know.

True knowledge comes only through suffering.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.

Give your dog something to do before you share food, water, toys or affection. This way the dog earns his treat. For example, have him or her perform the "sit" or "down" command.

We have to do it, so there's no point in bitching.

Being an artist is celebrating life.

Genius points the way, talent takes it.