The day will happen whether or not you get up.

The day will happen
whether or not you get up

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.