You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.

Courage is the only Magic worth having.

I have ne'er been in a chamber with a lawyer when I did not wish either to scream with desperation or else fall into the deepest of sleeps, e'en when the matter concern'd my own future most profoundly.

But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.

When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order.

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

The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.