Letters Quotes

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.

I’ve noticed, the closer you get to the real thing in any bout of writing, the more formidable are the perverse interruptions, the deflections, tempting diversions and sheer obstacular incidents. The Alchemists were so familiar with it, they gave it a name – Ophiucos i.e. the Great Snake (no less!)

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I have but one prayer at heart; and that is, to have my faculties so far preserved that I can be useful, to the last.

The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned.

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it.

This is my letter to the world
That never wrote to me.

No man is a hero to his valet.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever after.

I'm sorry this letter is so long, I didn't have time to make it shorter.

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horridly cruel works of nature!

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

This place is hell. They herd you around like cattle; they order you around like dogs; they work you like horses; and they feed you like hogs.

I wrote a letter to my dad - I wrote, "I really enjoy being here," but I accidentally wrote rarely instead of really. But I still wanted to use it so I crossed it out and wrote, "I rarely drive steamboats, dad - there's a lot of shit you don't know about me. Quit trying to act like I'm a steamboat operator." This letter took a harsh turn right away.

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.