Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.

What I most want is to spring out of this personality, then to sit apart from that leaping. I've lived too long where I can be reached.

There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts.

Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine.

I was a thorn rushing to be with a rose, vinegar blending with honey… Then I found some dirt to make an ointment that would honor my soul… Love says, “You are right, but don’t claim these changes. Remember, I am wind. You are an ember I ignite.

If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart.

There is some kiss we want with your whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. And the lily, how passionately it needs some wild darling.