My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

There is no truth. Only points of view.

The poet is the complete lover of mankind.

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.

By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it.

it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.