Some people are proud of their humility.
People as a rule do mean much more than they understand.
It is not love, but lack of love which is blind.
New York City is a great apartment hotel in which everyone lives and no one is at home.
Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.
But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would surely kill us.
There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments.
They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.
Legality can't create love if it isn't there, or preserve it if it's dying, but it can destroy love by making it compulsory.
The sun penetrates crystal and makes it more dazzling. In the same way, the sanctifying Spirit indwells in souls and makes them more radiant. They become like so many powerhouses beaming grace and love around them.
I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.