Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are. How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure. Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech. If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost. That is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Quite right, Might ! _I've read "Philosophy in the woods" by Henri David Thoreau. and since I prefer good english speaking, so that everybody in the world would understand that English will be the only language left and used (recursively and necessarely needing the kwownledge of European Civilizations, even if in USA, it can be found odd and weird: "what is great in robbing Arts from other counties, if the robbers are not able to understand the mysteries of what they found robbing those Arts and then, can not use the fruit of the Robbery, keeping the robbed Art's Mysteries first for themselves remaining unexplained, and the question then is still: as we walk through "our" museums, what do we really know ? I am afraid theanswer is: Nothing at all." (My quotes's_excerpts from my book: "Why the heck ?" _It's one thing to elaborate an idea with perfect words in a sentence when you write it; it is another bigger thing to put some enlightened idea in those words. Only writing perfectly could be making a perfect naive-style and meaningless painting, being granted for having done a litterair high-level's "no-error" dictation from the Jury and get Awards for the "form", when the meaning of the "content" could though be totally mindless. _So, I do not aggree with a perfect form: Henri Fielding English Writer_XVIII Century) would have certainly said after what you say in your posting: _Who cares of the form, if what you say is true, everyone that has got some spirit in his brain other than alcohol, has more rights to be rude or 'bad-orthographist' and tell the truth, than the one telling lies with a nice pen and pretty words. Being clumsy or not educated enough are great human qualitis and advantages, only disdained though by the ones who think stupidely they are the elite because they learnt Dictionaries by heart, and have no thoughts at all, and who cares about those ones ? (Think I'll add that one in my next book.) _A well-filled-up brain in a well-made head is something "perfect" that everybody is still in search of, as they are for the last chord ! Don't be moody, don't be blue. When humans find the keys, they' (we')ll let you know...but they, we have to solve much more important things first than the "perfection in the form", which could be, for example: " ...better get some deep brains there, so that we can handle our planet, so it can turn round for all !" _ This is just adjusting the right time to your watch, friend ! _Oh, just one thing: It doesn't seem a so important thing in USA to speak and write correctly when you hear some "elocution problems" in some Official speeches...to the world...from totaly relatively 'Important' personnages here. So, why care too much, just don't listen if you don't want to have your ears scratched by some bad sounds.(There is is already a complete "Lexicon" published of the press, taken in the last two years U.S Reality.) Next time, I will talk to you about the "Museum of Farts" in Palermo,_Sicilia. (It really exists ! but maybe was destroyed by the ...Winds & Moves, with that earthquake in Sicilia !?)

Wow! Those are some great quotes, dialyn. Do you have some other quotes by Thoreau? Thanks for the inspiration.