The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don't flower

It is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its brow of the flower and retell it in words and in touch it is lovely until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing.

Go so deep into yourself, you speak for everyone.

I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.

Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.

To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment

The first step in the journey is to lose your way.

Turn on the dream you lived through the unwavering gaze. It is as you thought: the living burn. In the floating days may you discover grace.

I have always intended to live forever; but not until now, to live now.

Sometimes it is necessary To reteach a thing its loveliness

Let our scars fall in love.

Wisdom is found in the heart not the head.

Don't you know how, in talking a foreign language, even fluently, one says half the time not what one wants to but what one can?

My God, my GodMay there be no endTo the sea, to the sand, The splash of the water, The glow of the sky, The prayer of man

No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.

I just wanted to inspire people and I hope I did.

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.

There is strength in numbers.

For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

You don't need a treaty to have free trade.

we walk the plank with strangers.