...I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon...

...some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school...

...the wet brush of snowflakes was like your kisses everywhere ...

...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...

...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms...

...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ...

...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...

...you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth...

...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...

...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...

...is worship too strong a word? yes, I worship you - to worship is to give worth to something – isn’t that what love is all about?...

Am I going with time slowly or is time going with me?

I have converted the machinery of my fate into the servant of my will.

Waking up in good health this morning is truly enough reason for you to walk around with a big smile on your face.

Nothing’s boring if it’s in your soul…

Call it a clan call it a network call it a tribe call it a family: Whatever you call it whoever you are you need one.

There are no shortcuts and no sweatless quickies.

I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear.

It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later.

... but the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity.

I feel that the internal worlds of women are not that well represented by society. It is not an immediate thing people think about - the imagination of women or women's philosophy.