Geniuses were like storms or cyclones, pulling everything into their path, sticks and stones and dust.

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

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.

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

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.

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

Eternally, woman spills herself away in driblets to the thirsty, seldom being allowed the time, the quiet, the peace, to let the pitcher fill up to the brim.