"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."

"The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past."

"Don't try to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

"The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail."

"The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews."

"Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."

"Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind."

"Learning is finding out what you already know"

"That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing."

"The past is but the beginning of a beginning."

"To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it."

"Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others."