If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us. — William Faulkner. American writer and novelist (1897–1962)
Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.