...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.

I don't like quintessential certitude.

True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.

Perhaps this very instant is your time.

All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.

O remember In your narrowing dark hours That more things move Than blood in the heart.

It is not possible, for a poet, writing in any language, to protect himself from the tragic elements in human life.... [ellipsis in source] Illness, old age, and death--subjects as ancient as humanity--these are the subjects that the poet must speak of very nearly from the first moment that he begins to speak.