A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.
T. S. EliotNot the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.
T. S. EliotA philosophy can and must be worked out with the greatest rigour and discipline in the details, but can ultimately be founded on nothing but faith: and this is the reason, I suspect, why the novelties in philosophy are only in elaboration, and never in fundamentals.
T. S. Eliot