We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open

I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are.

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.