Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars

You go to Heaven once you've been to Hell

If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.

She was made of flesh and eyelashes.

A sip of wine, a cigarette, And then it’s time to go. I tidied up the kitchenette; I tuned the old banjo. I’m wanted at the traffic-jam. They’re saving me a seat.

Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.

Silence And a deeper silence When the crickets Hesitate

Your body will never be familiar.

I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you was naked Ah, but some of you was light.

It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.

Ah, grief makes us precise!

Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!!

There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.

When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned.

We are ugly but we have the music.

How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings

We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.

Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

My friends are gone and my hair is grey. I ache in places I used to play. And I’m crazy for love but I’m not coming on. I’m just paying my rent every day in the tower of song.

Love is not a victory march It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep

He knew that hair couldn't feel; he kissed her hair.

Deprivation is the mother of poetry.