John Berryman

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.

I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.