You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it.
Sing, if you can sing, and it not still be musical inside yourself.
It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.
On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?
And I say to my heart: rave on.
It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone.