... The house is on fire, but go ahead - finish painting the verandah...

...Authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer...

After life has broken you open, perhaps you may create art.

...You can be talented as a wolf is breathtakingly fierce...Silver and gray, like smoke in the trees - but what do you do with terrible beauty?...

...You are not what you seem - you're a Sylph - you leave and the air retains your image - you haunt me...

...In my dream the shadings of your soul are the dark tincture of rain...