No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.
The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it.
Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ... is to write as little as possible
Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock.