To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward. – Margaret Fairless Barber, The Roadmender
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance. – A. R. Ammons
We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in mens mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other mens keeping. – Michel de Montaigne
