"I've learned through writing that if something..." - Quote by Taylor Swift

“You have to be happy with who you are and the choices you make. If you don't like yourself, you'll never be truly happy.”

“Sometimes when relationships end, you write an e-mail and say everything you wish you said. Sometimes you don't push send.”

“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.”

“Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.”

“[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.”

“We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment.”

“Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind - or you might say, a reflection of your mind in the body.”

“Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.”

“A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.”