Through Love, Through Friendship, A Heart Lives

To Withhold From Living Is To Die ... The More You Give Of Yourself To Life The More Life Nourishes You.

To Write At The Same Temperature At Which I Live I Should Write Nothing But Poetry.

I Sleep With My Feet On Moss Carpets, My Branches In The Cotton Of The Clouds.

To Write Is To Descend, To Excavate, To Go Underground.

Jazz Is The Expression Of America's Romantic Self, Its Sensual Potency, Its Lyrical Force.