Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further. - Thomas Carlyle

(Quoted by Thomas Carlyle) The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect.

It depends on what we read, after all manner of Professors have done their best for us.

Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.