The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent...there must be no obstacle in it, no foreign matter unconsumed.
and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage
My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.
On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.