The threshold is the place of expectation.

The universal subjugator, the commonplace.

I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.

A man would create another man if one did not already exist, but a woman might live an eternity without even thinking of reproducing her own sex.

After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being poets. Poets send their creations into the world, it is up to the reader, the aesthetician, and the critic to determine what they wanted to say with their creations.

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

Before you can do something, you must first be something.