Poetry is statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only never-changing sign being the sign of infinity.

An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, "Come and find me, come and find me."

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

Nothing happens... but first a dream.

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.

There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music.