“It is at the edge of the petal that love waits”

“This is Just to Say I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold”

“beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.”

“Your thighs are appletrees. Your knees are a southern breeze.”