Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.
In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it cannot be an adequate reproduction of the original.
Good writers are of necessity rare.
A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.
Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.
Every one who has seriously investigated a novel question, who has really interrogated Nature with a view to a distinct answer, will bear me out in saying that it requires intense and sustained effort of imagination.