Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've done

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices in the lost lilac and the lost sea voices and the weak spirit quickens to rebel for the bent golden-rod and the lost sea smell quickens to recover.

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.