Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.

“As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of …”

“We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitati…”

“When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with …”

“The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, feeds upon itself.”