I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.
First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
What does the brain matter compared with the heart?
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.