A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
If God intended everybody to be the same, he’d have given us all braces on our legs.
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity—it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.