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

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.

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.

Words were her plague and words were her redemption.

When they have discovered truth in nature they fling it into a book, where it is even worse hands.

No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.

The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts.

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

Being alone is scary, but not as scary as feeling alone in a relationship.

As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host.

Auguries are oft subtle...and dangerous - thou may deem they mean one thing when they mean something else altogether.

Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?

My dad used to flush my mother's head down the toilet. I was so screwed up.

I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force, of nuclear bombs -- there is the power of good, of morality, of humanitarianism.