I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet.

Teach us to care and not to care

I confess . . . that I am not myself very much concerned with the question of influence, or with those publicists who have impressed their names upon the public by catching the morning tide and rowing very vast in the direction in which the current was flowing; but rather that there should always be a few writers preoccupied in penetrating to the core of the matter, in trying to arrive at the truth and to set it forth, without too much hope, without ambition to alter the immediate course of affairs, and without being downcast or defeated when nothing appears to ensue.

Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think

To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.

But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where.

To make an end is to make a beginning.