Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing.

Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.

Absence becomes the greatest Presence.

There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.

People are always talking about the joys of youth-but, oh, how youth can suffer!