Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

... the transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement between the two the whole fortune of his works depend.

I prefer men to cauliflowers

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.

For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.