If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty, people would go mad. Married men would run amuck.

Know that it is good to work. Work with love, and think of liking it when you do it. It is easy and interesting. It is a privilege. There is nothing hard about it but your anxious vanity and fear of failure.

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

The only way to love a person is...by listening to them and seeing and believing in the god, in the poet, in them. For by doing this, you keep the god and the poet alive and make it flourish.

... the great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.

...writing is not a performance but a generosity.

Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.