It is no madness to say you will fall, you great cities.

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.

We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.

Nothing in the universe is impermeable to the flow of love.

In all, Nigeria belongs to us all and we have a personal responsibility to see that it succeeds

I learned to ambush the fear and I managed to turn vulnerability to ruthlessness.

I love water - I'm an Aquarius, but that has nothing to do with it - and I've never been away from water in any place.

You'll see a consistent, like the tea, the tea bags you saw there-you'll see a consistent-did you see the cafeteria? I mean the diner?

I'm always trying to pop up in different genres, what interests me. Sometimes I just like to throw myself into new situations to see what it feel like.

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

I never sit on a fence. I am either on one side or another.

It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you.