violent storms. and beautiful smiles. both have electricity. both are equally destructive in nature.

The splendid thingabout falling apartsilently...is thatyou can start overas many timesas you like.

even in the loneliest momentsi have been therefor myself.

some winterswill never meltsome summerswill never freezeand some things will only... live in poems.

...so i will greet youin a wayall loved thingsare meant to be greetedwith a tear in my heartand a poem in my eye.

i have laughedmore than daffodilsand cried more than June.

your handtouching mine.this is howgalaxiescollide.

To fall in love with someone's thoughts - the most intimate, splendid romance.

the intensityin your eyesburns my penas i write.

lean in to kiss mein all the placeswhere the acheis the most special.

i writebecauseit is the only wayi can reach you.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

A new baby is the beginning of a new universe—his own unique universe.

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.

Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl.

You can give the Devil too much or too little attention.

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways.

I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.