“My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me”

“And if I please you so, my lover,Remember praise is comely.”

“If You Should GoLove, leave me like the light, The gently passing day;We would not know, but for the night, When it has slipped away.Go quietly; a dream, When done, should leave no traceThat it has lived, except a gleam Across the dreamer's face.”

“I have no will to weep or sing,No least desire to pray or curse;The loss of love is a terrible thing;They lie who say that death is worse.”

“Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.”

“Aika often says that she is the only one capable of loving me the same way I am is the one capable of loving her, and no one will be able to stand my twisted personality other than her and for me to betray her is unthinkable and impossible”

“When I fell out the window, I knew somebody would catch me. That's what I need to tell you: that I knew the loving world was there all the time. -Patrick Ireland of the Columbine massacre”