The only way to love a person is...by listening to them and seeing and believing in the god, in the poet, in them. For by doing this, you keep the go….

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life..

Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude..

I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day..

Duty should be a byproduct..

You must become aware of the richness in you and come to believe in it and know it is there, so that you can write opulently and with self-trust. If ….

It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next..

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role..

... when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. ... Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two people cannot go fast and ….

The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining..

Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the most peewee ef….

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us s….

Orthodox criticism ... is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented, having the most imagination a….

... the great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic..

the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person..

I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the ti….

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable..

Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at a….

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *shou….

The writer has a feeling and utters it from his true self. The reader reads it and is immediately infected and has exactly the same feeling. This is ….

Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self..