A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.

Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.

I've been born, and once is enough.

Neither way is better. / Both ways are necessary. / It is also necessary / To make a choice between them.