"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."

"No one else can speak the words on your lips Drench yourself in words unspoken Live your life with arms wide open Today is where your book begins The rest is still unwritten"

"Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough."

"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."

"I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad."

"Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way."

"There is no place in nature for extinction."