“Our world is full of sound Our world is more lovely than anyone's tho we suffer, and kill each other and sometimes fail to walk the air.”

"A day will come when men will discover an alphabet in the eyes of chalcedonies, in the markings of the moth, and will learn in astonishment that every spotted snail has always been a poem.”

“Now women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.”

“I think I grow tensions like flowers in a wood where nobody goes”

“I ended up with a broken fiddle -- And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories, And not a single regret.”

“That does not keep me from having a terrible need of shall I say the word religion. Then I go out at night and paint the stars.”