What you can do, or think you can, begin it.
Do thine own task, and be therewith content.
If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.
We don't get to know anything but what we love.
Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.