I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.
While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.
Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.
If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.