“Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes.”

“The strongest natures, when they are influenced, submit the most unreservedly; it is perhaps a sign of their strength.”

“Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.”

“The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness”

“If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?”

“Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.”

“What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice. ”