For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other.

Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.

Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.

Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.

The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result

As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.

I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much.

It's always better to go personal and painful than to go big.

In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.

In one sentence, I'd describe myself as indescribable. But, I wouldn't end it with a period. I'd end it with three dots.

The Black woman is the most unprotected, unloved woman on earth...she is the only flower on earth...that grows unwatered.

We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.

Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.

Eve, I know this continues to astound and baffle you, but I actually like to socialize." "I know. If it wasn't for that, you'd be perfect.

One should not be adventurous being a woman.

And though circuitous and obscureThe feet of Nemesis how sure!