The complaints of the child in us will never cease lamenting until it is consoled, answered, understood. Only then will it lie still in us, like our fears. It will die in peace and leave us what the child leaves to the man - the sense of wonder.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.

... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.

Poetry, which is our relation to the senses, enables us to retain a living relationship to all things. It is the quickest means of transportation to reach dimensions above or beyond the traps set by the so-called realists. It is a way to learn levitation and travel in liberated continents, to travel by moonlight as well as sunlight.

Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously.

The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself.