Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.

perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.

Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.

This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.

I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.

Spring, / you are a pinking shears: you cut / fresh edges on the world.

If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.