as small as a world and as large as alone For whatever we lose(like a you or a me) it’s always ourselves we find in the sea - E. E. Cummings

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.

my advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world — unless you're not only willing, but glad, to feel and work and fight till you die. Does this sound dismal? It isn't. It's the most wonderful life on earth. Or so I feel.

great men burn bridges before they come to them

nothing is quite as easy as using words like somebody else. We all of us do exactly this nearly all of the time — and whenever we do it, we are not poets.