Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it under its roof.