The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim.

The power of the visible is the invisible.

There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.

There never was a war that was not inward.

[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.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.