Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.
I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.
Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.
No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.
It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.
Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.