What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself, and thus make yourself indispensable.
A straight path never leads anywhere? Except to the objective.
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling; as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free, that is the task.
It is better to be hated for what one is than to be loved for what one isn't.
What slips from knowledge is what to us is the most precious.
All that you are not able to give will start to possess you in the end.