“The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.”

“A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.”

“In other words, to put it into Euclid, or old-fashioned plane geometry, a straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.”

“I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is alive ... and open to growth”

“In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s a very strict rhythm or meter…And each line has to end with a rigid pattern. And if the poet does not do it exactly this way, it is not a sonnet…But within this strict form the poet has complete freedom to say whatever he wants…You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.”

“The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.”

“If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.”