“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.”

“Perhaps the hardest thing in all literature— at least I have found it so: by no voluntary effort can I accomplish it: I have to take it as it comes— is to write anything original. And perhaps the easiest is, when once an original line has been struck out, to follow it up, and to write any amount more to the same tune.”

“What are your drawn to?"..."Language, Words, No, not teaching. Perhaps one day I'll write something.”

“with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long, a long life if possible, and then, right at the end, one could perhaps write ten lines that are good.”

“Writing is a simple but elusive art,” he said. “To write is to describe. Describe accurately and respectfully. And perhaps passionately.”

“Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.”