It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.
It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.
Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They must cease to see them as "women's issues" and learn that they are everyone's issues - essential to survival on planet Earth.
The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.