Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life.
It's not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject, but the suffering of endless labor without dream, eating the spare bread in bitterness, being a slave without the security of a slave.
I am luminous with age.
No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people.
Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?
You can tell by looking at most people that the world remains a stone to them and a closed door.