Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.
The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
I'm sick of my own romanticism!
Write. Write until it stops hurting.
I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.
Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise.