Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice of eternity.

Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.