"These fragments I have shored against my ruins" - T. S. Eliot

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter." -Oscar Wilde

"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." -T. S. Eliot

"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness." -Robert Frost

"Tell all the truth but tell it slant - Success in Circuit lies Too Bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind -" -Emily Dickinson

"Now that my ladder's gone I must lie down where all the ladders start In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart." -WB Yeats