“When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.”

“Nobody knows you.You don't know yourself.And I, who am half in love with you,What am I in love with?My own imaginings?”

“I love you, rotten,Delicious rottenness....wonderful are the hellish experiences,Orphic, delicateDionysos of the Underworld.”

“You, if you were sensible,When I tell you the stars flash signals,each one dreadful,You would not turn and answer meThe night is wonderful.”

“When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.”

“I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.”

“Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.”