Every man is made of clay and diamond, and no woman can nourish both.

Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.

I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.

Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.

Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.

Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.

Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.