Pleasure involves respect, and respect starts with words.

Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever.

I'd spent half of my life crying, the other half refusing to cry

The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear witness. To despair. And desperate lives.

I was the last, the sole survivor. The most honorable thing a survivor could do was survive. If you stayed on your feet, stayed alive, you were the winner.

Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.

The natural and untainted male mind respects and loves the woman and her magnificent scope of capability and creative gifts.

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

The seasons change and you change, but the Lord abides evermore the same, and the streams of His love are as deep, as broad and as full as ever.

Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.

If you have a problem with people living their lives and being authentically who they are, you really should go and do some soul-searching.

God, the Master Weaver. He stretches the yarn and intertwines the colors, the ragged twine with the velvet strings, the pains with the pleasures. Nothing escapes his reach.

Magic of the nights is always much impressive than the magic of the days!

For me, the new pictures are what I'm thinking about every day. The past is the past, no? Every day is a new challenge.

Beauty is not a concept. It is the animal joy of the mind.