Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

If I am on a journey where I only have time to read one-and-a-half books, I never know which one-and-a-half I'll feel like reading. So I bring eight.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.