Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.

It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

words can never get at the truth.

Eventually women will learn there's no such thing as freedom. Their husbands are just as fastened to the deck as they are. Men get onto a treadmill and never got off.

And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit of liveliness may be: it may result in ... tiresome acrobatics. ... Flashy effects distract the mind. They destroy their persuasiveness; you would not believe a man was very intent on ploughing a furrow if he carried a hoop with him and jumped through it at every other step. ... When virtuosity gets the upper hand of your theme, or is better than your idea, it is time to quit.

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet.