We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.

Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.

Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.