There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends.

I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man.

What has miserable, inefficient Mexico...to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.

To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of trees in the woods and grass by the roadside is the flawless triumph of art.