We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.

Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.

The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

The master said you must write what you see / But what I see does not move me / The master answered Change what you see.

Intense love always leads to mourning.

I pretended indifference…even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. And the more deeply I felt, the less able I was to respond.

From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.

The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams.

The unsaid, for me, exerts great power.

At first I saw you everywhere. Now only in certain things, at longer intervals.

I’m like the child who buries her head in the pillow so as not to see, the child who tells herself that light causes sadness—

Perpetual Optimism is a Force Multiplier.

Live is good!

Live and love with your soul's goodness and inner beauty as your heart leaps upward in any season of your life.

A hungry man is an angry one.

Pain, thou art not an evil

Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.

People are afraid of an unorganized, wasteful government.

The role of a librarian is to make sense of the world of information. If that's not a qualification for superhero-dom, what is?

Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.