If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion.
Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
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.