If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise.

I have patience for centuries in me and will live as though my time were very big.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me.

If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing . . . then you are a writer.

Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms of spring without fear that after them may come no summer

Fame, that public destruction of one in process of becoming, into whose building-ground the mob breaks, displacing his stones.