I smiled, I waited, I was circumspect; O never, never, never write that I missed life or loving.

In my garden the winds have beaten the ripe lilies; in my garden, the salt has wilted the first flakes of young narcissus.

We are voyagers, discoverers of the not-known, the unrecorded; we have no map; possibly we will reach haven, heaven.

I will be free, no lover's kiss to bind me to earth, no bliss of love to counteract actual bliss.

Dance until the earth dance.

She did not look at the daffodils. They didn't mean anything. She looked at the daffodils. She said, 'Thank you for the daffodils.

One flower may slay the winter and meet death.

You are wind in a stark tree, you are the stark tree unbent, you are a strung bow, you are an arrow.

I could not accept from wisdom what love taught, woman is perfect.

Ah love is bitter and sweet, but which is more sweet the bitterness or the sweetness, none has spoken it.

No poetic phantasy but a biological reality, a fact: I am an entity like bird, insect, plant or sea-plant cell; I live; I am alive.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you.

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

The process of unlearning in order to relearn demands a new concept of knowledge not as thing but as a process, not as a noun but as a verb.

I wanted to create something that broke rules and made women feel confident and empowered.

What did the 5 fingers say to the face. S L A P!

I truly feel that food is a celebration of life. It's the most important, most valuable gift that God gave humans.

Having an enemy that is visible out in the daylight is a good thing.

There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?

The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.