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.

I had learned to harness ignorance with presumption. I was ready to become an unacknowledged watercolorist.

Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.

The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.

I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul.