I was afraid of looking into my heart...afraid of thinking seriously about anything...I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved.

Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.

Art, if one employs this term in the broad sense that includes poetry within its realm, is an art of creation laden with ideals, located at the very core of the life of a people, defining the spiritual and moral shape of that life.

I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.

It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.

Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.

There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.