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— Henry David Thoreau"Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably near to it. It is only by a miracle that poetry is written at all. It is not recoverable thought, but a hue caught from a vaster receding thought."
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If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion.
— Aldous Huxley
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I can exchange opinion with any neighbouring mind, I have as healthy flesh and blood as any rhymer's had, But O! my Heart could bear no more when the upland caught the wind; I ran, I ran, from my love's side because my Heart went mad.
— William Butler Yeats
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