It is in general true that in order to create works of art one has to have leisure. On the other hand I think that one needs to experience resistance in a practical sense, and even that which is poignant to bring out what makes easy reading for others. Too much deprivation of course, means death.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

There never was a war that was not inward.

There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.

I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it

The hands are the heart's messengers.

Omissions are not accidents.