I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.
We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.
Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.
We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.
The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.
It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.