The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Home is where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.