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When I say I must write, I don't mean I must publish. There is a great difference. the important thing is the chaotic form given to my chaotic experie...more

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brave love, dreamnot of staunching such strict flame, but come,lean to my wound; burn on, burn on.

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How we need that security. How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I n...more

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Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am ...more

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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it

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I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps outLooking, with its hooks, for something to love.

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O love, how did you get here?--Nick and the Candlestick

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What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the ...more

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I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.

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I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when I wake up in shuddering horro...more

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How can I tell Bob that my happiness streams from having wrenched a piece out of my life, a piece of hurt and beauty, and transformed it to typewritte...more

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Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering an...more

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Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I could...more

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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to crea...more

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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of me...more