When I go out with the ladies, I don't force them to pronounce my name. I tell them I like to go by the nickname of Kitten.
It is better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it.
Patience is the capacity to endure all that is necessary in attaining a desired end. . . . Patience never forsakes the ultimate goal because the road is hard. There can be no patience without an object.
It's no use to worry about what people think. I never do. I used to. But when I saw that they'd really rather think wrong than right I gave it up.
where the bedroom is wrong the whole house is wrong.
. . . acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure.
They are emotional gluttons, both of them. They gobbled up every sensation they could extract from marriage, and now they are seeing if separation won't provide them with a few more.
There's part of me that is a strict materialist.
Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am going to try it; and am going to test, in the most rigid way I know, the awful question whether it is my vocation.
You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I could seize them with my hands - out in the open air, in the woods, while walking, in the silence of the nights, at dawn, excited by moods which are translated by the poet into words, by me into tones that sound and roar and storm about me till I have set them down in notes.
Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.