“The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle”

“If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all”

“A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer”

“I am fit for nothing but literature”

“We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”

“Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them”