Lit Verve

"I make the most of all that comes

"A light here required a shadow there."

"I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me."

"The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."

"There isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance, prevails."

"I am rooted, but I flow."

"Keep awake, alive, new. Perform the paradox of being hard and yet soft. Survive without calcification of the tender membranes. Be a poet. Be alive."

"Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances."

"The world is too much with us;"

"The bright side of the planet moves toward darkness And the cities are falling asleep, each in its hour, And for me, now as then, it is too much. There is too much world."

"Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all."