“God, let me remember all good losers.”

“I am stone and steel of your sleeping numbers;I remember all you forget.I will die as many timesas you make me over again.”

“Gather the stars if you wish it soGather the songs and keep them.Gather the faces of women.Gather for keeping years and years.And then...Loosen your hands, let go and say good-bye.Let the stars and songs go.Let the faces and years go.Loosen your hands and say good-bye.”

“Give me hunger,O you gods that sit and giveThe world its orders.Give me hunger, pain and want,Shut me out with shame and failureFrom your doors of gold and fame,Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger!But leave me a little love,A voice to speak to me in the day end,A hand to touch me in the dark roomBreaking the long loneliness.”

“A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.”

“Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it runs by.”

“There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely.”