I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.
A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
The fog comes on little cat feet.
I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.
The woman named Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth and takes her time
Hope your wildest hopes, dream your maddest dreams, imagine your most fantastic fantasies. Where your hopes and your dreams and your imagination leave off, the love of my Heavenly Father only begins.
We would much rather blame nature for what we don't like in ourselves than credit it for what we do like.
I am never lonely or discouraged or tired. When you live in constant communion with God, you cannot be lonely. When you perceive the working of God's wonderful plan and know that all good effort bears good fruit, you cannot be discouraged. When you have found inner peace, you are in contact with the source of universal energy and cannot be tired.
He who, being bold For life to come, is false to the past sweet Of mortal life, hath killed the world above. For why to live again if not to meet? And why to meet if not to meet in love? And why in love if not in that dear love of old?