A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

For you cannot have gentility without paying for it.

Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure.

I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.

Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.

God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.

Don't go fighting against the Spring.