My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.
Life's major challenge: getting reborn often enough.
Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.
Adversity is a stimulus.
It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.
I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.