A Man Is The Facade Of A

For It Is Not Metres, But A Metre-making Argument That Makes A Poem, - A Thought So Passionate And Alive That Like The Spirit Of A Plant Or An Animal It Has An Architecture Of Its Own, And Adorns Nature With A New Thing.

Great Genial Power, One Would Almost Say, Consists In Not Being Original At All; In Being Altogether Receptive; In Letting The World Do All, And Suffering The Spirit Of The Hour To Pass Unobstructed Through The Mind.

In Every Man There Is Something Wherein I May Learn Of Him, And In That I Am His Pupil.

It Is A Greater Joy To See The Author's Author, Than Himself.

It Is Defeat Which Educates Us.