If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.

I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before us, I know we are not new, in city and in forest they smiled like me and you, but now it's come to distances and both of us must try, your eyes are soft with sorrow, Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.

Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.

What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. If Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

I've never thought of myself as a religious person.

I have often prayed for you like this Let me have her