If you can not be seduced by beauty, you cannot learn the wisdom of ugliness. ( )

HD talks about the creative process in refreshingly direct, yet appropriately ungraspable language.

For me, it was the birth of my child that the jelly-fish conciousness seemed to come definitely into the field or realm of the intellect or brain.

In a later essay, she talks about Sappho. It's good, but the language is a bit more dense and hard to parse, and I really don't care about Sappho as much. ( )