I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated

In music I feel most deeply the passing of things.

Why do I doubt her? Perhaps she is just very sensitive, and hypersensitive people are false when others doubt them; they waver. And one thinks them insincere. Yet I want to believe her. At the same time it does not seem so very important that she should love me. It is not her role. I am so filled with my love of her. And at the same time I feel that I am dying. Our love would be death. The embrace of imaginings.

If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ

Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.