Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.

He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind’s eye. It was one of the secrets of his military success.

Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.