"I, who thought to sink, was caught..." - Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“A great acacia, with its slender trunkAnd overpoise of multitudinous leaves.(In which a hundred fields might spill their dewAnd intense verdure, yet find room enough)Stood reconciling all the place with green.”

“My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.”

“The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.”

“You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me.”

“In love, each man is his own personal challenge.”

“Love gives life purpose and meaning.”

“I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.”

“And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.”

“Yesterday was glory and joy. Today, a blackened burn everywhere. On the record of my life, these two days will be put down as one”