I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root:/ It is what you fear./ I do not fear it: I have been there./ / Is it the sea you hear in me,/ Its dissatisfactions?/ Or the voice of not...
I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions./ Whatever I see I swallow immediately/ Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike./ I am not cruel, only truthful-/ The eye of the little god, four co...
I Am Vertical/ / But I would rather be horizontal./ I am not a tree with my root in the soil/ Sucking up minerals and motherly love/ So that each March I may gleam into leaf,/ Nor am I the beauty of ...
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human