Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.

The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty.

I want to be pure in heart -- but I like to wear my purple dress.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased.