You have to have short fingernails or they'd just break off, and you can't wear red polish - it looks like your fingers are bleeding.

You will always have value and nothing can change that.

The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.

How can I be kind? How can I find bird-relief in the nest-building of day-to-day? Necessity supplies no velvet wing with which to escape. I am indeed and mortally pierced with the seeds of love.

You have to be slightly blind to believe in any cause.

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it on the screen, opening and closing like a flower ... Poetry is like this, it is life moving, terrible, vivid. Look the other way when you write, or you might faint.