"Ariel" Quotes

Out of the ash / I rise with my red hair / And I eat men like air.

If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.

I am terrified by this dark thing / That sleeps in me;

I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.

I think I made you up inside my head.

The blood jet is poetry / There is no stopping it.

I am a raw nerve in a hard world.

The woman is perfected / Her dead / Body wears the smile of accomplishment.