I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
Every writer ''creates'' his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
