素履之往

我的迷茫和胆怯也一直都在，但我告诉自己，就算是万丈深渊，走下去，也是前程万里。

前往伊斯特兰的旅程

“你要学习刻意地暴露和收敛，”他说，“你现在的情形是，你总是在那里不自觉地暴露自己，使自己容易被得到。”

给青年的十二封信

许多第一流作者起初都经过模仿的阶段。莎士比亚起亚模仿英国旧戏剧作者，白朗宁起初模仿雪莱。

自深深处

You admired my work when it was finished: you enjoyed the brilliant successes of my first nights, and the brilliant banquets that followed them: you were proud, and quite naturally so, of being the intimate friend of an artist so distinguished: but you could not understand the conditions requisite for the production of artistic work. I am not speaking in phrases of rhetorical exaggeration but in terms of absolute truth to actual fact when I remind you that during the whole time we were together I never wrote one single line. Whether at Torquay, Goring, London, Florence or elsewhere, my life, as long as you were by my side, was entirely sterile and uncreative. And with but few intervals you were, I regret to say, by my side always.