“...maybe I am just your priest - or a churl - perhaps you mistrust me the way the medievals mistrusted monks...”

“...You say you don't mistrust me, yet you quote Chrysostom - Hell is paved with priests' skulls....”

“...you called me poet-priest - I am. ...devoted to my art, faithful to you...or, is the other way around?...”

“...yes, I am your priest, your magician, your lover - I make charms to incant your presence...”

“...I guess you're right - I am a priest - I offer sacrifices - so take this line, I want you to have something of mine...”

“...don't think love is just an emotion - I am dangerous and you know it because I will do anything you ask me to do...”

“...telling doesn't help me - it helps you. As Wilde says, It is the confession, not the priest, that gives absolution...”