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.
May SartonWords are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.
May SartonI am furious at all the letters to answer, when all I want to do is think and write poems. ... I long for open time, with no obligations except toward the inner world and what is going on there.
May SartonSometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.
May Sarton