“Writing is a constant exercise in longing.”
“Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.”
“Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.”
“Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.”
“Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in.”
“Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. Otherwise they fall into desuetude and become unfashionable, unorthodox—finally irregulationary.”