You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

I can't do it. I've been here before and it's not a room with a view. The only power I have is the negative power of withdrawal. If I don't withdraw I have no power at all. A relationship where one person has no power or negative power, isn't a relationship, it's the bond between master and slave.

I was the place where you anchored. I was the deep water where you could be weightless. I was the surface where you saw your own reflection. You scooped me up in your hands.

I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.

If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going.

When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.

The poet will not be satisfied with recording, the poet will have to transform.