Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross with hair-line precision.

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.

It is almost impossible for the poetess, once laurelled, to take off the crown for good or to reject values and taste of those who tender it.

Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air Reach to its rest, and fall.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!