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.

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

I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.

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.

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

I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.

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.