The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions.

poetry had everything to teach me about life.

The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sunstruck hills every day.

After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.

Don't just live the length of your life - live the width of it as well.

Of all the errands life seems to be running, of all the mysteries that enchant us, love is my favorite

Nature is also great fun. To pretend that nature isn't fun is to miss much of the joy of being alive.