The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.

This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.