The horse has such a docile nature, that he would always rather do right the wrong, if he can only be taught to distinguish one from the other.
All poetry comes from repetition.
You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.
The subject matter of the stories on the surface. . . there seem to be a number of stories about travel.
Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.
When you get an idea, go and write. Don't waste it in conversation.
It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.
Day and night I try, in my studio with its six two-thousand watt suns, balancing between the extremes of the impossible, to shake loose the real from the unreal, to give visions body, to penetrate into unknown transparencies.
Nowadays everyone has a camera and the Internet means everything is instantly accessible. Unlike some photographers, I don't see this as a problem. If anything interesting happens in the world today, there will be someone around to record it.
To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.
The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.