One flower may slay the winter and meet death.

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.

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.

I am Stephanie Lahart! An intelligent, empowered, and confident Black Queen. Purposely Fearless!

I always believe in the magical things ...if you don't believe, you can't receive.

Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.

It is only through the power of association that those of any calling exercise due influence in their communities.

Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.

I don't remember sitting down and saying, 'This is why I want to be--an actress.' I just knew. It was never a conscious decision or a revelation.

I hope I get the bliss. And I know I'm going to have to work for it. But I've got to say, really, I have no kind of, can I say "secular religiosity"? ... I don't have a denominational sight.

Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.

The American people abhor a vacuum.

Till all grace be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.