“I'm a perfectly equipped failure.”
“I'm a perfectly equipped failure. (...) 'Thank goodness you're a failure- it's why I so distinguish you! Anything else to-day is too hideous. Look about you- look at the successes. Would you be one, on your honour?”
“Failure gives the bald hairs; equips the novice with experience. The learner, sooner or later, becomes a teacher by it.”
“When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.”
“It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.”
“In the ultimate sense, the world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure. In the realization of this, failure is itself eliminated.”