So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball

Use words that soak up life.

She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!

The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent...there must be no obstacle in it, no foreign matter unconsumed.

There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.

We shall be the mouthpieces of the divine spirit—

She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.