Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.
Ever to confess you're bored
means you have no
Inner Resources.
means you have no
Inner Resources.
I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.
I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn.
One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be.
Something has been said for sobriety but very little.
That is our 'pointed task. Love & die.
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.
The only happy people in the world are those who do not have to write long poems.
The world is gradually becoming a place where I do not care to be anymore.
Them lady poets must not marry, pal... It is a true error to marry with poets / or to be by them.
There is no such thing as Freedom (though it is the most important condition of human life, after Humility,-which does not exist either). There is only Slavery (walls around one) and absence-of-Slavery (ability to walk in any direction, or to remain still).
This world is gradually becoming a place Where I do not care to be any more.
We have reason to be afraid. This is a terrible place.
We must travel in the direction of our fear.
Writing is just a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to make it come out right.
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