A Poet's Ambition

"The utmost ambition is to lodge a few poems where they will be hard to get rid of, to lodge a few irreducible bits...."

-Robert Frost, in his introduction to King Jasper, a posthumous collection of poems by E.A. Robinson

"Out of our quarrel with ourselves, we make poetry; out of our quarrel with others, we make only rhetoric."
-Yeats