You must change your life.

Huge lemons, cut in slices, would sink like setting suns into the dusky sea, softly illuminating it with their radiating membranes, and its clear, smooth surface aquiver from the rising bitter essence.

Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond the great thing toward the greater one.

Love the questions themselves...Live the questions now and have confidence that someday far into the future, [I will live my] way into the answer.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

Girls, there are poets who learn from you to say, what you, in your aloneness, are; and they learn through you to live distantness, as the evenings through the great stars become accustomed to eternity.

There are moments in which a rose is more important than a piece of bread