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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.
I would fall in love with you if you would beat these people out of me.
Every moment is a brand new baby, Baby. Every vow is a brave new voice.
It is important to use all knowledge ethically, humanely, and lovingly.
The heart is the toughest part of the body. Tenderness is in the hands.
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
To glorify the cult of images (my great, my only, my earliest passion).
If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.
If I have any advice to anybody it's this: take up watercolor painting.
If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates.
bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it
… and we are in bed together laughing and we don’t care about anything.
I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.
Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die.
some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.
i am going to start selling air in dark orange bags marked: moon-blooms
Time, like a flurry of wild rain, Shall drift across the darkened pane!
What good it does one to have a hearty, uncontrollable fit of laughter.
Because white men can’t police their imaginations, black men are dying.
The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter O.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.
Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.
How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.
Who cares about a kid from the Midwest writing pentameter? It's stupid.
Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.
[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.
There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses.
There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.
I have to live with myself and so, I want to be fit for myself to know.
All the world loves a lover, but how it does laugh at his love letters.
Treasure the shadow. ... There are no shadows save from substance cast.
Worth, courage, honor, these indeed Your sustenance and birthright are.
Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.
Father, I beg of Thee a little task To dignify my days, 'tis all I ask.
Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me.
Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.
I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home.
A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moistens the field.
At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky is a place of central calm.
When we have relationships with animals, we often make up who they are.
If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
Colours exist for me as entities in themselves, as metaphysical beings.