fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment.

In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.

What matters is the imaginative truth.

I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time.

When you fall in love, it is spring no matter when. Leaves falling make no difference, they are from another season.

never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature's assiduousness and human cruelty.

There are times when the thing we are seeing changes before our very eyes, and if it is a landscape we praise nature, and if it is celestial we invoke God, but if it is a loved one who defects, we excuse ourselves and say we have to be somewhere and are already late for our next appointment. We do not stay to put pennies over the half-dead eyes.