Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.

I know you have much to bear with in me, and I really do sometimes in you, but I have never looked at friendship in a deep sense as easy or entirely comfortable.

... love is healing, even rootless love.

Time spent with poets is never wasted.

So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time.

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!