Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.
We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness.
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
Lovers alone wear sunlight.
I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...
I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.
One’s not half of two; two are halves of one.
She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.
Always the beautiful answer that asks a more beautiful question.
And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
We can never be born enough.
I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.