There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. Read Summary
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. Read Summary
Wear your heart on your skin in this life. Read Summary
What I want back is what I was. Read Summary
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again. Read Summary
Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals. Read Summary
What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from. Read Summary
Every woman adores a Fascist. Read Summary
My childhood landscape was not land but the end of the land - the cold, salt, running hills of the Atlantic. I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own. Read Summary
When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time. Read Summary
Is there no way out of the mind? Read Summary
I must discipline myself. I must be imaginative and create plots, knit motives, probe dialogue - rather than merely trying to record descriptions and sensations. The latter is pointless, without purpose, unless it is later to be synthesized into a story. The latter is also a rather pronounced symptom of an oversensitive and unproductive ego. Read Summary
Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action. Read Summary
A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin. Read Summary
I am too pure for you or anyone. Read Summary
I have a visual imagination. Read Summary
Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.' Read Summary
One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind. Read Summary
I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited. Read Summary
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am. Read Summary