Talent

When music technology takes the place of musicianship, it's time to pull the plug

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents

Conciseness is the sister of talent

There is nothing new in art except talent

The university brings out all abilities, including incapability

I am fit for nothing but literature

If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all

You can do things that I cannot do. I can do things that you cannot do. Together we can do great things

It is the glory and merit of some men to write well, and of others not to write at all

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming

Ability is nothing without opportunity

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.