The nicest gifts are those left, nameless and quiet, unburdened with love, or vanity, or the desire for attention..

One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief..

When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether or not he is loved in return; when he only knows that he loves and….

the issue of war or peace is an issue that concerns not only experts on Foreign Affairs but every citizen of the United States..

I am very fond of the oyster shell. It is humble and awkward and ugly. It is slate-colored and unsymmetrical. Its form is not primarily beautiful but….

The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beau….

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded..

Ideally, both members of a couple in love free each other to new and different worlds..

Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse..

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future..

One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much..

What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage….

You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation..

Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive..

When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased..

I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself. I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a ce….

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one lov….

We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. An yet it is the unknown wit….

Love is a force.... It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product; it produces..

Failures aren't failures if you learn something from them..

Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye. If one is recognized everywhere, one begins to feel like Medusa.….