is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?

The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.

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

As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid - as if we'd disabled them utterly. Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?

From Roman times to the present, Italy has been a country to fall in love with - a tribute to all that is enduring, crazy, pagan, joyous, melancholy, at once banal and divine, in the human spirit.

Eating is never so simple as hunger.

We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.