An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.

Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.

I am burning myself up and will always do so.

He who is affected by an insult is infected by it.