Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.

I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever.

What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.

Every time I deny myself I commit a kind of suicide.

Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed- conditions which to, fortunately for modern women, no longer exist.

Perhaps every moment of time lived in human consciousness remains in the air around us.

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.