To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things.

To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things.

I do not know who sings my songs / Before they are sung by me.

Even the people who have it do not definitely know what genius is.

Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise. ... The cunningest hunger is hunted in turn, and what he leaves of his kill is meat for some other. That is the economy of nature, but with it all there is not sufficient account taken of the works of man. There is no scavenger that eats tin cans, and no wild thing leaves a like disfigurement on the forest floor.

When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.

Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push.