“If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.”

“The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.”

“I decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover, and that I would never learn a word of shorthand. If I never learned shorthand I would never have to use it.”

“I dreamed that you bewitched me into bedAnd sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.(I think I made you up inside my head.)--from "Mad Girl's Love Song: A Villanelle", written 1954”

“brave love, dreamnot of staunching such strict flame, but come,lean to my wound; burn on, burn on.”

“Feel like the recluse who comes out into the world with a life-saving gospel to find everybody has learned a new language in the meantime and can't understand a word he's saying.”

“If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song.”