Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.
“I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.”
“A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.”