Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
Being a daughter is only half the equation; bearing one is the other.
The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.
Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
Spring, / you are a pinking shears: you cut / fresh edges on the world.
You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.
I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.
I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked. With your own voice,' he said.
Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
Beware of the man who praises women's liberation; he is about to quit his job.
We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm.
I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?
of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
the only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said.
language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.