I gotta use words to talk to you.

Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t.

At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes.

Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.