When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.
Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
he who gives quickly gives twice / in nothing so much as in a letter.
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
[On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.