Nature is always hinting at us.

I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

We cannot tell some people what it is believe, partly because they are too stupid to understand, partly because we are too proudly vague to explain.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment