People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.

This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward.

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.

The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.

She was the captain of her soul

The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don't know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.