Originality is being different from oneself, not others.
I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.
Uncontradicting solitude Supports me on its giant palm; And like a sea-anemone Or simple snail, there cautiously Unfolds, emerges, what I am.
There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.
It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind.