“We should write as we dream; we should even try and write, we should all do it for ourselves, its very healthy, because its the only place where we never lie. At night we dont lie. Now if we think ...”

“People do not see you, / They invent you and accuse you.”

“I do believe in poetry. I believe that there are creatures endowed with the power to put things together and bring them back to life”

“I, too, overflow; my desires have invented new desires, my body knows unheard-of songs. Time and again I, too, have felt so full of luminous torrents that I could burst-burst with forms much more b...”

“Wouldn't the worst be, isn't the worst, in truth, that women aren't castrated, that they have only to stop listening to the Sirens (for the Sirens were men) for history to change its meaning?”

“Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge, cut through, get beyo...”

“Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge. And whatever their reasons you must leave. B...”

“Most often it is in heartache that we love more boldly.”

“Extraordinary people always inspire others.”