There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.

Life is neither a feast nor a fun. But a fast.

It is very easy for us to make choices in life but the most difficult part is to follow those choices through “.

I was at Harvard with a whole bunch of poets, and that was very rare. They published a lot of books because there was an excitement after the war that translated into poetry.

The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.

I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.

You will regret many things in life but you will never regret being too kind or too fair.

I think thats what all New Zealanders who are fair-minded want - a good chance for everybody to get ahead, whether its education or housing.

Let us daily strive to copy our Savior's humility.

That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened - good, bad, or anywhere in between - it was always, if nothing else, all your own.