The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.

I experienced the discomfort of those who have moved mentally, but are still clamped, physically, to the places they have moved from.

Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.

Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.

Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues.

each separate flower has a magic all its own.

The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.