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.