Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

And to my lips' Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn.

What we want is to destroy our false, inorganic connections, especially those related to money, and re-establish the living organic connections, with the cosmos, the sun and earth, with mankind and nation and family. Start with the sun, and the rest will slowly, slowly happen.

If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night

Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said.