Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

Oh, come forth into the storm and rout And be my love in the rain.

Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this world to make his own observations and remarks. That's what we mean by thinking, and that's about all we mean. A teacher says to a pupil "Watch me notice a few things in the next few months: let's see you notice a few things too."

The footpath down to the well is healed.