There must be real gods see, the painted gods how fair!

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.

Our relationship with Jesus is based on grace- on the unexpected, undeserved, counterintuitive love of God.

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one yet very little between a good one and none at all.

Senator Kerry says he sees two Americas. It makes the whole thing mutual - America sees two John Kerrys.

The pains and pleasures of the body, howsoever important to ourselves, are an indelicate subject of conversation

Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light.

The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when you do, to send money

The biggest lie in choosing is, "I can't." That is simply not true. We can do anything we want If we don't do something, it is because we have committed our time, energy and resources somewhere else.

One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.

A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.

I was afraid the fire would not be hot enough for me to distinguish myself.