“I don't write poems to melt your heart.I write them,so our heartscan melt together.”
“You don't write poems sitting at a typewriter; you write them swimming or climbing a mountain or walking.”
“Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you don't read, your writing is going to suck.”
“Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.”
“Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.”
“You are the Fire Lily", said the Winterking softly. "And I am the Ice King. Does fire melt ice? Or ice melt fire? Or may they come together, fire and ice, neither melted nor quenched?”