Self-Delight Quotes

I'm a witch woman--high on tobacco and holy water. I'm a woman delighted with her disasters. They give me something to do. A profession of sorts...I have the magic of words. The power to charm and kill at will.

When I like myself, which is not too often, but when I do like myself on film, it's when I point, and I go, 'Look what she did! She did the funniest thing - look at her!' Where I can really separate back from it and I don't see me anymore, then I'm really excited. That's, like, really fun for me. That jazzes me.

Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamentally self-delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation of things in the world.

I am a beautiful flower that is blossoming more and more each day. I delight in my world, and my world delights in me.

It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.

The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself.

He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.

All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will