The master said you must write what you see / But what I see does not move me / The master answered Change what you see.

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.

Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.

The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

Intense love always leads to mourning.

I pretended indifference…even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. And the more deeply I felt, the less able I was to respond.

From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.

The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams.

The unsaid, for me, exerts great power.

At first I saw you everywhere. Now only in certain things, at longer intervals.

I’m like the child who buries her head in the pillow so as not to see, the child who tells herself that light causes sadness—

Kitten, your hands are heaven and your eyes are my home.

Somehow he had catapulted himself beyond the world's value system. But this very fact lay upon him an awesome responsibility to maintain the illusions of other men.

You give the shirt off your back, no questions asked, and you stand alone at the cavernous mouth of your suburban closet—your entire life spent wonderingwhere your clothes went.

Survival requires guts and instinct.

And is it not sects, bodies of definite, uncompromising principles, that lead us into revolutions?

Forgiveness is a beautiful thing. That's why I forgive Reince Priebus, that little Greek rascal.

Things happen which would not happen without prayer. Let us not forget that.

One of the lowest points in my life was when I was diagnosed and combated with severe ulcerative colitis which is severe ulcers in you colon that bleed.

You cannot antagonize and be a positive influence, and you will antagonize when you discipline through emotion.

I try to produce whatever I like, it doesn't really matter what it is. It could be Progressive, it could be deeper, it doesn't matter to me. I produce whatever I like and I hope people enjoy it.