If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created.

People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.

Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.