The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

No man is a man until he has been a soldier.

Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us.

[She] knew that it was not precisely a body that one loved. One loved the man who shone out through the eyes and used its mouth to smile and speak.

Your lips are like sugar And your cheeks an apple Your breasts are paradise And your body a lily. O, to kiss the sugar To bite the apple To reveal paradise And open the lily.

How strange that the world should change because of words, and words change because of the world

The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it