For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have.

Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.

But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.

How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do""Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.

She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.

in the linked arms of Bacchus and Aphrodite.

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.

The lack of self-love has led many to obsessively hunger for attention.

Freedom is what's left when the belief systems deconstruct.

Skiing is the best way in the world to waste time.

The seeds are tiny, unborn things, and I resent them. They'll be planted and they'll grow into exactly what they're meant to be.

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

When you tell your truth, you are coming from a real place, so you are automatically a leader.

Better to cry wolf over and over than never to cry wolf at all.

I think a lot of people haven't even seen my videos but just hearing my name are like "Oh, that's that dumb Internet thing." And I'm definitely trying to shake that a little bit.

Poetics is a science for stammering poets.