The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.

I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.

How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers.

It is the duty of the writer to describe.

You cannot cross the narrow bridge of art carrying all its tools in your hands. Some you must leave behind.

A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything before it has anything to say. It is as if the savage tribe, instead of finding two bars of iron to play with, had found scattering the seashore fiddles, flutes, saxophones, trumpets, grand pianos by Erhard and Bechstein, and had begun with incredible energy, but without knowing a note of music, to hammer and thump upon them all at the same time.

The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.