Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; / Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; / Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.

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

I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.

The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

To make an end is to make a beginning.

The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.