Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.

all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.

There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, Hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper. . . .

You will always be here with me; As long as I live, A towering figure of love.

There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie.

Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.

Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech.