“The one that burned the hottest is the first to die.”

“A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.”

“I have two enemies in all the world, Two twins, inseparably fused: The hunger of the hungry and the fullness of the full.”

“I opened my veins. Unstoppably life spurts out with no remedy. Now I set out bowls and plates. Every bowl will be shallow. Every plate will be small. And overflowing their rims, into the black earth, to nourish the rushes unstoppably without cure, gushes poetry ...”