The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons

The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.

Poems On Love Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty. Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.

Let my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom.

We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.