"I am constitutionally nervous—high-strung. I have a morbid dread of solitude."

"I am a good deal of a cynic, and have a good deal of what the world calls misanthropy. But I am not a misanthrope."

"I have a very strong opinion that the world is going to the dogs."

"I have been a victim of a thousand phantasies."

"If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul, you haven't experienced poetry."