The trouble about most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation, or hope to be one in the next.

I have never, in all my life, been so odious as to regard myself as 'superior' to any living being, human or animal. I just walked alone - as I have always walked alone.

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.

As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.