The excellency of every art is its intensity$$$ capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

I never was in love - yet the voice and the shape of a woman has haunted me these two days.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding$$$ the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

There was never a great genius without a touch of madness.

If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different....I'd rather be completely fucking mental.

A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost.

She gazed and wondered$$$ like a child or peasant$$$ and paid her silent tribute to visible grandeur.

If one is strong$$$ one loves the more strongly.

Young girls need to learn that sexiness isn't about being naked.