Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.
The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?
A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.