Life is energy, and energy is creativity. And even when individuals pass on, the energy is retained in the work of art, locked in it and awaiting release if only someone will take the time and the care to unlock it.

We prove, we do not explain, our birth.

There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.

The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion.

Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.

In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.