Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.

Education is not filling

I gave what other women gave That stepped out of their clothes But when this soul, its body off Naked to naked goes, He it has found shall find therein What none other knows.

Like a long-legged fly upon the stream / His mind moves upon silence.

An intellectual hate is the worst.

It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.

Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.