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"You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold on to that? And I said,
Where I can put it down?"
"Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it."
"I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed."
"I love you. I say your name all the time when you're not around just to put more of you in the world."
“Only, I am in love, because my heart is awake to every vibration, to every touch of nature and humanity. I feel, always, from day to day, sorrow and joy. I live and dream love.”
“I prefer to give myself to my pen, I prefer to write, not for glory or to become known, no, only to write, to let those who want to understand my heart know it, in order to reform it.”
"In the dream I don't tell anyone, you put your head in my lap."
"Everything I've ever let go has claw marks on it."
"I am every age I have ever been. All time ever does is pass and all I ever do is remember."
"the center of every poem is this: I have loved you. I have to deal with that."
"I thought I'd die from being loved like that."
"Tell me about despair, yours and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile, the world goes on."
"To stay tender, the weight of life cannot lean on your bones."
"Come, love. Make me better than I was. Teach me a kinder way to say my own name."
"If you are intolerable, let me be the one to tolerate you."
"I cannot think of you apart from love."
"I will love you if I see you every day, and I will love you if I never see you again."
"I love you. I want us both to eat well."