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Writing is?waiting for the word that may not be there until next Tuesday.

Teach me, like you, to drink creation whole/ And casting out myself, become a soul.

The strength of the genie comes from being in a bottle.

I die of thirst here at the fountainside.

Outside the open window
The morning air is all awash with angels.

Whatever pains disease may bring Are but the tangy seasoning To Loves delicious fare.

The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art.

Most women know that sex isgood for headaches.

Odd that a thing is most itself when likened

Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia.

What is our praise or pride but to imagine excellence and try to make it? What does it say over the door of heaven; but, homo (sapiens) fecit?

To claim, at a dead party, to have spotted a grackle,
When in fact you haven't of late, can do no harm.

It is not tricks of sense But the time's fright within me which distracts Least fancies into violence

It is always a matter, my darling,
Of life or death, as I had forgotten. I wish
What I wished you before, but harder.

What's lightly hid is deepest understood,

A thrush, because I'd been wrong, Burst rightly into song In a world not vague, not lonely, Not governed by me only.

All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know

Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray ...

Young as she is, the stuff / Of her life is a great cargo, and some of it heavy: / I wish her a lucky passage.

Oh, let there be nothing on earth but laundry,
Nothing but rosy hands in the rising steam
And clear dances done in the sight of heaven.