It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome.

I sometimes think men don't 'hear' very well, if I take your meaning to be 'understand what is going on in a person.' That's what makes them so restful. Women wear each other out with their everlasting touching of the nerve.

... love is healing, even rootless love.

I am furious at all the letters to answer, when all I want to do is think and write poems. ... I long for open time, with no obligations except toward the inner world and what is going on there.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.