Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

Distracted from distraction by distraction

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.