Light threatens, is active, is gone, so it is with a song.

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.

Public success flourishes when we uphold private order.

For the evil our government does, tinfoil hats are simply not required, and are indeed a detriment.

[T]he habit of living as if in the shadow of death has remained with me, and I consider that, too, a gift.

We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

Eyes like streams of melting snow,” she said, and it was all I could do not to roll my melting snow eyes.

All reading for pleasure is entertainment.

You always exaggerate things in a movie. If it makes a good visual and it excites the kids that's good.