Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. / This is the origin of change.

True villains are extremely photogenic.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

If wanting to win is a fault, as some of my critics seem to insist, then I plead guilty. I like to win. I know no other way. It's in my blood.

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.

Long before we discovered mirrors and photographs, our mothers' reflections provided us with the earliest glimpses of our female identity.

I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.

I am a lady young in beauty waiting Until my truelove comes, and then we kiss.

I've always slightly regretted not taking up Chicago.

Marriage can be more an exultant ecstasy than the human mind can conceive. This is within the reach of every couple, every person.

Ours are the arms with which God hugs and holds her children.

What I wear is pants. What I do is live. How I pray is breathe.