It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it.

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail - in other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

You seemed to me to be soaring far up in the blue - to be sailing in the bright light, over the heads of men. Suddenly some one tosses up a faded rosebud - a missile that should never have reached you - and down you drop to the ground.

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.