“3454. More Flies are taken with a Drop of Honey than a Tun of Vinegar.”

“They attracted Hurricanes and Spitfires as honey attracts flies.”

“On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, and from his lips drop gentle words.”

“That's the only thing that matters, honey, for someone to see more in you than you thought there was to see.”

“Can imagination act
Perpendicular to fact?
Can it be a kite that flies
Till the Earth, umbrella-wise,
Folds and drops away from sight?”

“For the sake of having her with me I had to tolerate the shadow of a tracksuited poet, but one who has taken the guise of a man in love will indiscriminately eat and drink platefuls of thistles, barrels of vinegar.”

“…the vinegar of the law, then the wine of the gospel…”

“Loving is a journey with water and with stars,
with smothered air and abrupt storms of flour:
loving is a clash of lightning-bolts
and two bodies defeated by a single drop of honey.”

“a woman can
drop
out of your
life and
forget you
real fast.
a woman
can't go anywhere
but UP
after
leaving you,
honey.”

“And what is the end of the whole matter? As if honey could taste itself and all its drops together and all its drops could taste each other and each the whole honeycomb as itself, so should the end be with God and the soul of man and the universe.”