Darling, do you remember the man you married? Touch me, remind me who I am.

The heart breaks and breaks and lives by breaking it is necessary to go through dark and deeper dark and not to turn

You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.

I refuse to turn to theology to justify the life or redeem it. There is a question always of the connection to the eternal. I say to myself above all, keep alive your conviction that there are sacred elements in the life in the practice of the life that must be respected. But the conviction in the existence of the sacred does not necessarily imply that you need to believe in a creator, because we are the ones that made the sacred.

Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams.

Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough friction-that they aren't making enough of an effort to reconcile the contradictions of life. All you get is sweet monotonous flow. Writer's block is nothing to commit suicide over. It simply indicates some imbalance between your experience and your art, and I think that's constructive.

I dance/for the joy of surviving, at the edge of the road.