A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.
The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
Only through time time is conquered
For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!
We have all our private terrors, our particular shadows, our secret fears. We are afraid in a fear which we cannot face, which none understands, and our hearts are torn from us, our brains unskinned like the layers of an onion, ourselves the last.