“Pessimism has its own secret Share of optimism in it too.”

“Poems are not often simply emotions butOne has enough emotions -- they're experienceExperience themselves are not important....”

“Love's expressions are boundless,Expectations are ... nothing but Love!”

“Losing is never just by itself a loss...”

“Life is a complexwith real and imaginary parts”

“SilenceIt has a sound, a fullness.It's heavy with sigh of tree,and space between breaths.It's ripe with pause between birdsongand crash of surf. It's golden they say.But no one tells us it's addictive.”

“She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel; she has inside her a magic space the entrance to which is shut tight with a plug of membrane; she is a closed system; she does not know how to shiver.”