The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
Ordinary life does not interest me.
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
Write. Write until it stops hurting.
What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.