You attract what you need like a lover

Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.

The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.