A dead heart is a dead life

I hear a sacred voice.

You're lips are bloody.' He seized my face in both hands and kissed me. It's hard not to respond when a master of the art of kissing is laying one on you.

Sometimes you can gradually improve things. But sometimes, they don't work, and you've just got to just say: Let's grind this baby to a halt.

Whatever energy you put out there, that's the energy you're going to get back.

Nothing like the act of eating for equalizing men. Dying is nothing to it.

Vegetarianism as a moral position is no more coherent than saying that you think it morally wrong to eat meat from a spotted cow but not morally wrong to eat meat from a non-spotted cow.

Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open.

I think it was Rose Macaulay who said, "A house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived."

The minute that we change our minds, and stop giving power to the past, the past with its mistakes loses power over us.

I write poems to find out why I write them