The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.
T. S. EliotExcept for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance
T. S. EliotThe majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.
T. S. Eliot