Passionate grave thought, belief enhanced, ritual returned and magic.

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.

Her sadness was like a deep well just beneath the surface of her determination.

I have noticed that the solar radiation reflections from rippled privacy windows cause greatly accelerated growth patterns in plants

One must learn a different... sense of time one that depends more on small amounts than big ones.

I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.

Whereever you are in life, however old you are, begin thinking about every day as the first day of your life.

Living more intensely, more lovingly, with more camaraderie, that is in itself resistance.

What sexual preference do you hope she has?” “Happiness.” Isnt that cool?

The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.

I am a very judgmental person. Of myself and other people. I recognise it's a great fault, but I have no power over that.

Ancient wisdom offers . . . a simple yet profound formula to guide everyone who leads, anyone who aspires to leadership: 'Do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly.'