It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.

I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It's a dream that won't come true.

I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they.

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.

I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past.

It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.

I long for the day I no longer long for him.

For the kindest of them was as far out of touch, as unreachable, as the crudest.

I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.

I think that as long as you have other poets before you and that you can learn from them, then it's always open ended for you.

I am for who i was in the beginning but now is present and i exist in the future.

Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.

It's one thing to be this 'tough chick,' but you also have to be likeable.

There is nothing more basic to our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders.

The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosophers Stone.

Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.