Jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind.

I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.

I like to have space to spread my mind out in.

It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers.

The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest run down its china walls unrecorded.

Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.