Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between.

And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.

Such a Big miracle in such a tiny baby. Big things often have small beginnings A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

The past is a bucket of ashes