It is something to have gazed on the constellated white, felt it running from the eyes and the pores: the salt of love. It is something to have whispered wild thank-yous in the only ways we know how.

I too was pinched off from a piece of clay, I too modeled by omnipotence and flankedby things too wonderful for me

Friend who has fired the kingfishers and flamed the dragonflies – they catch your light however they move and beam it out of their eyes.

I can be totally feminine and totally feminist. The two are not mutually exclusive.

Obsessing over something that has jarred your world is called coping.

It's easy to love someone you haven't let down.

Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.

I saw thee ne'er before; I see thee never more; But love, and help, and pain, beautiful one, Have made thee mine, till all my years are done.

I don't have any comment on who the people of Russia choose to be their leaders.

Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?

We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past.

Music can measure how broad our horizons are. My mind wants to see to infinity.