"Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.

I have spoken too long for a writer. A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it. Again I thank you."

- Ernest Hemmingway

"Realize the one great principle of unity that there is in every man
all our egoistic impulses, our selfish desires,
obscure our true vision of the soul.
For they only indicate our own narrow self.
When we are conscious of our soul
we perceive the inner being that transcends our ego
and has its deeper affinity with the all.

But the truth opens up a whole horizon
It leads us to the infinite.

It surpasses that by all sides
and points to the infinite reality.

Our soul when detached and imprisoned within the narrow limits of the self
Loses its significance.
For its very essence is unity.
It can only find out its truth by unifying itself with others.
And only then it has its joy.

Know thine own soul!

The human mind has power to apprehend the truth.
The truth of that unity which comprehends multiplicity.
Facts are many but the truth is one.
And he feels an exceeding joy when he finds this out.
For then, he realizes himself in his surroundings.

And it is the discovery of ourselves outside us which makes us glad.

In love the sense of difference is obliterated
And the human soul fulfills its purpose in perfection
Transcending the limits of itself
and reaching across the threshold of the infinite.
Therefore love is the highest bliss that man can attain to
For through it alone, he truly knows that he is more than himself
and that he is at one with the all."

- Rabindranath Tagore