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Henry Miller on Writing (1964)

Source: Oedipus at Colonus, Line 1616–18

Rabbit Redux (1969)
Context: His insides are beginning to feel sickly. The pain of the world is a crater all these syrups and pills a thousandfold would fail to fill.

Secrets of Being Unstoppable

Letter to Sister Mary James Power (1 October 1934); published in The Wild God of the World : An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers (2003), edited by Albert Gelpi, p. 189 - 190
Context: I think that one may contribute (ever so slightly) to the beauty of things by making one's own life and environment beautiful, as far as one's power reaches. This includes moral beauty, one of the qualities of humanity, though it seems not to appear elsewhere in the universe. But I would have each person realize that his contribution is not important, its success not really a matter for exultation nor its failure for mourning; the beauty of things is sufficient without him.
(An office of tragic poetry is to show that there is beauty in pain and failure as much as in success and happiness.)

"Symptoms of Love" from More Poems (1961).
Poems

40 Inspiring Guides to a New Life

[ Link to tweet https://twitter.com/dril/status/754537489805828096]
Tweets by year, 2016

Bridge over Troubled Water
Song lyrics, Bridge over Troubled Water (1970)

Verse XXXV.1
Tirukkural

Get-Well-Cards
Conor Oberst (2008)

Source: The Windup Girl (2009), p. 212

Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

On Pain (1934)

Bittersweet, Chapter 3 at p. 56

Source: https://m.facebook.com/JohnMarkGreenPoetry/photos/maybe-that-is-my-superpoweri-can-inhale-pain-and-breathe-out-poetrywriterquotes-/3371469836265687/