We must be greater than God, for we have to undo His injustice.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none

Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.

How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the picture like birds of prey.

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it