“Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.”

“A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.”

“In a dark time, the eye begins to see.”

“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”

“Stephen kissed me in the spring, Robin in the fall, But Colin only looked at me And never kissed at all. Stephen’s kiss was lost in jest, Robin’s lost in play, But the kiss in Colin’s eyes H...”

“It is strange how often a heart must be broken Before the years can make it wise.”

“The poem must resist the intelligence Almost successfully.”

“The Long Hill I must have passed the crest a while ago And now I am going down-- Strange to have crossed the crest and not to know, But the brambles were always grabbing at the hem of my gow...”

“The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.”