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My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.
I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.
Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds.
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.
Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.
The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image.
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.
I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly.
Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality.
Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite.
Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.
We love best those who are, or act for us, a self we do not wish to be or act out.
We sit on the kitchen exchanging these diabolical outgrowths of overfertile minds.
We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living.
I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.
To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.
Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky
You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
Balance is not to be sought by association with others; it must exist within one's self.
The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.
I spell 'god' with a small 'g' because I do not believe in him, but I love to swear by him.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.
We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.
the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.
The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.
Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.
Most artists have retired too absolutely; they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents.
You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.