The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.

Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the secret rays of the universe, and restores to us forgotten paradises.

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention.

Another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.

The great sins and fires break out of me like the terrible leaves from the bough in the violent spring. I am a walking fire, I am all leaves.

I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.