"Music, my rampart and my only one."

"No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place."

"Lost in Hell,-Persephone, Take her head upon your knee; Say to her, "My dear, my dear, It is not so dreadful here."

"The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity."

"There is no shelter in you anywhere."

"Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb."

"Ebb I know what my heart is like Since your love died: It is like a hollow ledge Holding a little pool Left there by the tide, A little tepid pool, Drying inward from the edge."

"Night falls fast. Today is in the past. Blown from the dark hill hither to my door Three flakes, then four Arrive, then many more."

"Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn."

"What should I be but just what I am?"

"You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that."

"I love humanity but I hate people."

"It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over."

"I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one."

"After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not love, just because it perished?"

"I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes."

"Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely."

"My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— It gives a lovely light!"

"My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going."

"Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it."

"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell."

"I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year."

"They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now"

"Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down."