Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. - T. S. Eliot

With Cats, some say, one rule is true:
Don’t speak till you are spoken to.
Myself, I do not hold with that — I say, you should ad-dress a Cat.
But always keep in mind that he
Resents familiarity.
I bow, and taking off my hat,
Ad-dress him in this form: O Cat!
But if he is the Cat next door,
Whom I have often met before
(He comes to see me in my flat)
I greet him with an oopsa Cat!
I think I've heard them call him James — But we've not got so far as names.

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.

I said to my soul be still, and wait without hope; for hope would be hope for the wrong thing.