“Poetry is as intimate as it is non-remunerative, a tiny part of the small word of books where writers lay themselves bare and mine the darkest corners of their lives for art.”— Kat Rosenfield, vulture.com
“For he who creates must be a world of his own and everything within himself and in the natural world that he has elected to follow.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“Attempt to raise the sunken sensations of this distant past; your self will become the stronger for it, your loneliness will open up and become a twilit dwelling in which the noise other people make is only heard far off. And if from this turn inwards, from this submersion in your own world, there c…”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“I may turn out an intellectual, but I’ll never write anything but mediocre poetry.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Poems amount to so little when you write them too early in your life. You ought to wait and gather sense and sweetness for a whole lifetime, and a long one if possible, and then, at the very end, you might perhaps be able to write ten good lines.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com