Mary MacLane

I love devils. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#i #i love #love

I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#happiness #i #i can #more #tell

I want to live quietly. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#live #quietly #want

I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#happy #i #mother #rather #wife

I've never made plans for more than a day ahead. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#day #i #made #more #never

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#amused #be happy #does #expected #genius

Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#greatest #i #poets #put

One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#aim #always #because #interest #keep

The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#book #had #i #joy #longer

The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#like #little #marsh #mint #white