There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love
I am burning myself up and will always do so.
You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.