A Man Must Cling To

You Don't Have To Travel Around The World To Understand That The Sky Is Blue Everywhere

There Is No Trifling With Nature; It Is Always True, Grave, And Severe; It Is Always In The Light, And The Faults And Errors Fall To Our Share. It Defies Incompetency, But Reveals Its Secrets To The Competent, The Truthful, And The Pure.

Some People Spend The Day In Complaining Of A Headache, And The Night In Drinking The Wine That Gives It.

What A Day It Is When We Must Envy The Men In Their Graves.

There Is A Great Difference, Whether The Poet Seeks The Particular For The Sake Of The General Or Sees The General In The Particular. From The Former Procedure There Ensues Allegory, In Which The Particular Serves Only As Illustration, As Example Of The General. The Latter Procedure, However, Is Genuinely The Nature Of Poetry; It Expresses Something Particular, Without Thinking Of The General Or Pointing To It.