All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.

Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.

If I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I'd stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest.

I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more.

At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end?

There are easy ways to bring back summer in the snowstorm

How I admired people who talked about their vices as though they were distant relatives they'd learn to put up with because they couldn't quite disown them.

I wish I knew how to calibrate my kiss the way he did but passion allows us to hide more.

How historians explain time is one thing, but how we live time is quite another.

We loved with every organ but the heart.

What he was after hangs between the visible and the invisible, between the here and now and the seemingly elsewhere.

If there is no one who is perfect, So there is no one better than you

He has the gift of quiet.

Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.

Being me right now is sort of amazing.

They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no others.Such will be more shocked by his life than by his death.

After all, how many of us had tried to forget something traumatic...only to find it printed on the back of our eyelids, tattooed on our tongues?

The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.

Look inside your soul and find your tools. We all have tools and have to live with the help of them. I have two tools—my words and my images.

No one can understand my Mystery. The best you can do is to get immersed in it. It is no use your arguing about pros and cons; dive and know the depth; eat and know the taste.

The highest point of music for me is to become in a place where there is no desire, no craving, wanting to do anything else. It is the best place you have ever been, and yet there is nothing there.