"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."

"The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first."

"I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates."

"A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance."

"Art is the soul's attempt to give enduring form to the formless. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

"It is a quiet truth that art is the soul's attempt to give enduring form to the formless — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a unyielding truth that a dream nurtured by daily toil will inevitably outshine a wish born of idle hope."

"Wisdom principle 2 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 33."