Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?

These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.

To be bound by hungers is a beautiful thing but to be bound by physical hungers only is too low a state for man.

Suddenly many movements are going on within me, many things are happening, there is an almost unbearable sense of sprouting, of bursting encasements, of moving kernels, expanding flesh.

Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life.

Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.

Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.