The only difference between the Adamic man and the man of today is that the one was born to Paradise and the other has to create it.

If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch.

If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical you've got it half licked.

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

We create our fate everyday

I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is the only such realm.

An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument.