Still I enjoy The long sweetness of the simultaneity, yours and mine, ours and mine,... The mosquitoey summer night light. Now about your poem Called this poem: it stays and must outshine its welcome.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
you and I Are suddenly what the trees try... To tell us we are: That their merely being there Means something; that soon We may touch, love, explain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal ru...les--don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;Mit is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make so...me people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good bre...eding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »