Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One may be wrong, mistaken, or a poor craftsman, or just ignorant - but this is no indication of the true worth of one's total human identity: past, present and future!

I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds.

So I kiss him, and there is the great dark sea ahead.

Spiderlike, I spin mirrors, Loyal to my image.

Clouds pass and disperse. Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables? Is it for such I agitate my heart?

I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.

I am sending back the key that let me into bluebeard's study; because he would make love to me I am sending back the key; in his eye's darkroom I can see my X-rayed heart, dissected body: I am sending back the key that let me into bluebeard s study.