As believers our only debt is love and our only competition is to outdo each other in love.

Men inflict injuries from hatred, jealousy or contempt, but the wise man masters all these passions by means of reason.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

and he said her name to fill the space of five years.

You're trying to just leave the world a little better.

I wanted a more female point of view.

Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.

No doubt, love comes in many colors of the rainbow.

Life is scarier than death.

There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.

If you're too big to serve. You're too small to lead.