The root and the flower have to trust each other. If the root does not trust, the plant won't blossom.

Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about

And the things you know before you hear them; these are you and the reason you are in the world.

I have a feeling that art is something you do for yourself, and that any time you turn your decisions over to someone else you're postponing at best, your own development. The atmosphere of the workshop should be that of trying out one's own work and accepting the signals from others but not accepting the dictation of others because that is a violation of the spirit of art. Art can't be done by somebody else, it has got to be done by the artist.

Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is: Why did other people stop?