Poetry should be vital--either stirring our blood by its divine movements or snatching our breath by its divine perfection. To do both is supreme glory, to do either is enduring fame.
Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
Few men can afford to be angry.
Is this true or only clever?
Libraries are not made, they grow.
The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.