I find that once you start helping others, it makes you feel better about yourself. It helps you figure out what you want to do with your own life.
“There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.”
“Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.”