Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except maybe when I'm making love.
Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing.
Pain can make a whole winter bright, like fever, force us to live deep and hard.
Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!