“Dead my old fine hopesAnd dry my dreaming but still...Iris, blue each spring”

“Twilight whippoorwill...Whistle on, sweet deepenerOf dark loneliness”

“Why so scrawny, cat?Starving for fat fish or mice...Or backyard love?”

“Many solemn nights Blond moon, we stand and marvel...Sleeping our noons away”

“Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation. (p.232)”

“Do you think I'm pretty?I think you're beautifulBeautiful?You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.”

“As if you were on fire from within.The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”

“It is only a barbarous mind that sees other than the flower, merely an animal mind that dreams of other than the moon.”

“This autumn-why am I growing old?bird disappearing among clouds.”

“stronger than mountains.a place where my heart feels the safest- underneath his shirt.”