Greatness A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child. The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.
Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.
Refusing Rodin's invitation to work in his studio. No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. To be great is to be misunderstood. US poet and essayist.