Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line.

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.

A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.

In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write.

Live in a perpetual great astonishment.

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.