Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.
Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality.
We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
Dreams are necessary to life.
Write. Write until it stops hurting.
There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one day we find, in some summing-up of our life and put attitudes towards experience, that their influence has been enormous.