“I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself.”

“You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do but you don't have to be arrogant about it.”

“Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death.The gift of art is a superior gift that allows you to enter into the unknown of the before and into the ignored of the affair, in the world of dreams and meditation.There are no schools in there are poets.The true artist understand all the ways and finds beauty in all forms. All the glory and eternity are in your conscience.”

“[...]he aquí que veréis en mis versos princesas, reyes, cosas imperiales, visiones de países lejanos ó imposibles: qué queréis! yo detesto la vida y el tiempo en que me tocó nacer[...]”

“I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.”

“Don’t bother calling the cops, because nobody can find me here. I know, because after all these years, I’m still trying to find myself.”

“Let me alone, said Mildred. I didn't do anything.Let you alone! That's all very well, but how can I leave myself alone? We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. how long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”