I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you; obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue — that I had to do the job myself.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.

Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.

The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.