Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.
The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.
All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.
Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.