instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.

When you change the way you look at a thing, the thing itself changes...By mastering feelings, she had come to understand the meaning of discipline and its reward: freedom and power.

Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.

When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you can't reach.

instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.