Whatever I believed, I did; I did with my whole heart and mind as far as possible to do so.

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?

I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.

Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is restive, acutely dissatisfied with anything else. He becomes as a lover to whom abstinence is intolerable.

Perhaps . . . our lot on the earth is to seek and to search. Now and again we find just enough to enable us to carry on. I now doubt that any of us will completely find and be found in this life.

Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.