Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. – Anais Nin
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. – Anais Nin
When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship. – Marlo Thomas
I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it. – Wislawa Szymborska