I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day.

Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.

Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.

Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.

at this point I meet Me face to face. I am Mary MacLane: of no importance to the wide bright world and dearly and damnably important to Me.

Some day the Devil will come to me and say: 'Come with me.'And I will answer: 'Yes.

I consider calmly the question of how much evil I should need to kill off my finer feelings.