Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments.

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

Go into yourself. Dig into yourself for a deep answer

You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter you long before it happens. Just wait for the birth, for the the hour of the new clarity.

... be indulgent toward those who ... are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.

It is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.