"If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the s..." — Sidney Lanier

But I cannot bring myself to believe that I was intended for a musician, because it seems so small a business in comparison with other things which, it seems to me, I might do. Question here: 'What is the province of music in the economy of the world?'

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am going to try it; and am going to test, in the most rigid way I know, the awful question whether it is my vocation.