No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.

A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.

Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.

Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.

There is no person without a world.

I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets are exciting. Even though you are approaching Sappho in translation, that is no reason you should miss the drama of trying to read a papyrus torn in half or riddled with holes or smaller than a postage stamp--brackets imply a free space of imaginal adventure.

You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness." Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.