"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."

"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."

"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."

"Perseverance and audacity generally win."

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

"Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well."

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

"A mother understands what a child does not say."

"Separate together in a bunch. [And don't] stand around so much in little bundles!"