Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.

Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.

gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary.

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance.

And one cold starry night / Whatever your belief / The phoenix will take flight / Over the seas of grief / To sing her thrilling song / To stars and waves and sky / For neither old nor young / The phoenix does not die.

When it comes to the important things one is always alone.