There is no such thing as a lost cause, because there is no such thing as a gained cause
The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.
Talent imitates, but genius steals.
After such knowledge, what forgiveness?
Survival is your strength not your shame.
No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.