You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.

We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.

When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.

Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.

But at my back from time to time I hear The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring. O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter And on her daughter They wash their feet in soda water.

Talent imitates, genius steals.

Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth.