The soul's bliss and suffering are bound together.

If it's darkness we're having, let it be extravagant.

If you want a different life, you gotta start doing and learning different things.

A poet's job is to find a name for everything: to be a fearless finder of the names of things.

My ear is not working, my poetry ear. I can't write a line that doesn't sound like pots and pans falling out of the cupboard.

There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squandered a fortune far away.

Let it come, as it will, and don't be afraid. God does not leave us comfortless, so let evening come.

I am the one whose love overcomes you, already with you when you think to call my name.

Everyone longs for love's tense joys and red delights.

To the bottle in the ditch, to the scoopin the oats, to air in the lunglet evening come.Let it come, as it will, and don'tbe afraid. God does not leave uscomfortless, so let evening come.

Holding onto fear is weakness

The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.

I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.

Remember how last year there were two more girls than guys and I had to be on the guys' side and dance with all the girls? That was a lot of fun. I love being tall.

I may go for it or I may not. It all depends on what I elect to do on my backswing.

Who or what are you? Besides insufferably rude?

Nothing is staged exactly as it was, because I can't remember - and I consider that an advantage.

Suppose something goes wrong? Suppose you need a big full-figure woman like me to help straighten things out?" Lula

It is never a waste of time to study the history of a word.

As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun.