For the beginning is assuredly the end- since we know nothing, pure and simple, beyond our own complexities.

A new world is only a new mind.

I pick the hair from her eyes and watch her misery with compassion.

THE THOUGHTFUL LOVER Deny yourself all half things. Have it or leave it. But it will keep—or it is not worth the having. Never start anything you can't finish— However do not lose faith because you are starved! She loves you she says. Believe it —tomorrow. But today the particulars of poetry that difficult art require your whole attention.

It's a strange courage you give me ancient star: Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part!

A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.

The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.