Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

"You become what you think about all day long."

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."

"Always do what you are afraid to do."

"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."