[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.
Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
We prove, we do not explain, our birth.
Among animals, one has a sense of humor. Humor saves a few steps, it saves years.
I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.