"No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high."
"Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?"
"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."
"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."
"Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?"
"The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice."