The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction.
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen
Extending your hand is extending yourself.
We will all wake up semi-angels, If we wake at all.
Be gentle with me, new love. Treat me tenderly. I need the gentle touch, the soft voice, the candlelight after nine. There's been so many who didn't understand so give me all the love I see in your timid eyes but give it gently Please.
A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against.