“Hold back the edges of your gown, Ladies, we are going through hell.”

“It is at the edge of the petal that love waits”

“So most of my life has been lived in hell.”

“The HurricaneThe tree lay downon the garage roof and stretched, You have your heaven, it said, go to it.”

“There is no thing that with a twist of the imagination cannot be something else. Porpoises risen in a green sea, the wind at nightfall bending the rose- red grasses and you- in your apron hurrying to catch- say it seems to you to be your son. How ridiculous! You will pass up into a cloud and look back at me, not count the scribbling foolish that put wings at your heels, at your knees.”

“It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time.”

“Your thighs are appletrees. Your knees are a southern breeze.”