I have brushed my teeth.This day and I are even.

Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And then you come home, as if nothing ever happened.

Basked in the sun,listened to birds,licked off raindrops,and only in flightthe leaf saw the treeand graspedwhat it had been.

Why is the word yes so brief? it should be the longest, the hardest, so that you could not decide in an instant to say it, so that upon reflection you could stop in the middle of saying it.

I broke your heart.Now barefoot I treadon shards.

droppedand fallingfrom suchheightsfor solongthatmaybeI will haveenough timeto learnflying

Devotion to self is necessary. First, place the mask on yourself and breathe deeply. Then help the others. If you don’t save yourself, they will die.

How could he live never knowing what it would be like to hold her close and sleep with her the whole night through?

Science is to be much commended for the ingenuity, the patience, and the persistency it displays in the invention of instruments wherewith to ferret out the secrets of nature.

Dying is the last,but the least matter that a Christian has to be anxious about

When there is suffering, we look for a reason. That reason is easiest found within oneself.

It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their own eyes and ears.

I don't know if experimental is a word I would ever use comfortably.

To know one's ignorance is the best part of knowledge.

I was approaching adolescence. For some reason, I guess my mother thought it would be less crazy out in the suburbs, which it wasn't. I just think adolescence is hard for anyone.