It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.

The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.

There is no work of art that is without short cuts.

Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.

The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.

How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.