Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me
Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible-truer than the truth.
The object of art is to give life shape.
Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless.
Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.