If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim.

There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.

In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.

Excess is the common substitute for energy.

The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.

One detects creative power by its capacity to conquer one's detachment.