Our love lives because I live.

Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or sensations we experience.

Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.

I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.

I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated