Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

My name is only an anagram of toilets.

Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing. This frightful toil is as much critical as creative.

With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.'

Every end is a beginning...And every beginning is an end.

We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!