Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.

for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.

When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy. When grace is lost from life, come with a burst of song. When tumultuous work raises its din on all sides shutting me out from beyond, come to me, my lord of silence, with thy peace and rest. When my beggarly heart sits crouched, shut up in a corner, break open the door, my king, and come with the ceremony of a king. When desire blinds the mind with delusion and dust, O thou holy one, thou wakeful, come with thy light and thy thunder.

[The poets' role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice in the music of prophecy