Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. And what comes with that self-confidence is an essential indifference to what the voices of the time may say about him. He knows what his value is and that the future will agree. If the woman artist has been trained to believe that the activities of motherhood are trivial, tangential to the main issues of life, irrelevant to the great themes of literature, she should untrain herself.
Art is the essence of awareness.
Irony distances the author from his material. Irony is a product of something. It's not the reason for doing something. You can't create until you're willing to subordinate the creative impulses to the constriction of a form. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.