No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.

Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism : they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Things aren't all so tangible a…

A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.

When you go to bed, don't leave bread or milk on the table: it attracts the dead.

The question we writers are asked most often, the favorite question, is: Why do you write? I write because I have an innate need to write. I write because I ca…

With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not - they cannot at will be excited, with an eye…

Writing is its own reward.