Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
Grasmere, England
The child is father of the man.
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
"Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart and write."
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.