Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Gather the stars if you wish it so Gather the songs and keep them. Gather the faces of women. Gather for keeping years and years. And then... Loosen your hands, let go and say good-bye. Let the stars and songs go. Let the faces and years go. Loosen your hands and say good-bye.

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.

A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.

Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.

Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is.