"In the last analysis, love is only..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public.”

“Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me.”

“Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?”

“The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from piling bricks to a kind of frenzy closely related to delirium tremens.”

“Love cannot be described. It must be tasted.”

“The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.”

“What other people think of me is none of my business. One of the highest places you can get to is being independent of the good opinions of other people.”

“One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.”

“The public wanted a fairy princess to come and touch them and everything would turn to gold. Little did they realise that the individual is crucifying herself inside because she didn't think she was good enough.”