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

In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

Now that the lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room