“I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.”
“If suddenly you do not exist,If suddenly you are not living,I shall go on living.I do not dare,I do not dare to write it,if you die.I shall go on living.”
“And I'm not a poet: but never despair!I'll madly live the poems I shall never write.”
“I write because I love it, not because I excel at it. But because I write, I shall slowly excel at it.”
“I want to do something splendid…Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead…I think I shall write books.”
“I want to do something splendid. Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead. I think I shall write books.”