When you conquer something, it means you fought for it.
A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.
The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other.
Lie in the sun with the child in your flesh shining like a jewel. Dream and sing, pagan, wise in your vitals. Stand still like a fat budding tree, like a stalk of corn athrob and aglisten in the heat. Lie like a mare panting with the dancing feet of colts against her sides. Sleep at night as the spring earth. Walk heavily as a wheat stalk at its full time bending towards the earth waiting for the reaper. Let your life swell downward so you become like a vase, a vessel. Let the unknown child knock and knock against you and rise like a dolphin within.
I am luminous with age.
Linear thinking is patriarchal.
These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.
You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.
An ear will never do you wrong, but I know writers who. . . most of the language they use is just extracted language from other languages they've read. I am a big-time reader, but I mix and match.
You never know what's right, what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.
Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.