To put off is not to let off. [ German Proverb ]

Put his shoulder to the wheel. [ Burton ]

To put new handles to an old pot. [ Proverb ]

He put a fine feather in his cap. [ Proverb ]

Wherries must not put out to sea. [ Proverb ]

He either fears his fate too much,
Or his deserts are small.
That dares not put it to the touch
To gain or lose it all. [ Marquis Of Montrose ]

Put thou thy trust in God;
In duty's path go on;
Fix on His word thy steadfast eye;
So shall thy work be done. [ Martin Luther ]

He either fears his fate too much,
Or his deserts are small,
Who dares not put it to the touch
To win or lose it all. [ Marquis of Montrose ]

It was fear that first put on arms. [ Proverb ]

Put himself upon his good behavior. [ Byron ]

The great put the little on the hook. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Ne'er put a sword in a madman's hand. [ Scotch Proverb ]

To put up with abuse (swallow snakes). [ French ]

You put the clown above the gentleman. [ Proverb ]

Dogs that put up many hares kill none. [ Proverb ]

True joy is only hope put out of fear. [ Lord Brooke ]

They both put their hands in one glove. [ Proverb ]

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice. [ Landor ]

Put no money in the scale against virtue. [ Proverb ]

All is not won, that is put in the purse. [ Proverb ]

Put not an embroidered crupper on an ass. [ Proverb ]

War cannot be put on a certain allowance. [ Archidamus III ]

Virtue rejoices in being put to the test.

Gold that is put to use more gold begets. [ Shakespeare ]

To put our sickle into another man's corn. [ Proverb ]

We find in life exactly what we put in it. [ Emerson ]

Silks and satins put out the kitchen fire. [ Proverb ]

Loaves put awry in the oven come out awry. [ Proverb ]

In form so delicate, so soft his skin.
So fair in feature, and so smooth his chin.
Quite to unman him nothing wants but this;
Put him in coats, and he's a very miss. [ Horace ]

Cowards fear to die; but courage stout,
Rather than live in snuff, will be put out. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

With an if one might put Paris in a bottle. [ French Proverb ]

Ornament is but the gilded shore
To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf
Veiling an Indian; beauty, in a word.
The seeming truth which cunning times put on
To entrap the wisest. [ William Shakespeare ]

The fault of the horse is put on the saddle. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets;
But gold that's put to use more gold begets. [ William Shakespeare ]

A soft answer bids a furioso put up his sword. [ Proverb ]

When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim,
Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing. [ William Shakespeare ]

Put off your armour and then shew your courage. [ Proverb ]

If I am a fool, put you your finger in my mouth. [ Proverb ]

Silks and satins put out the fire in the chimney. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Reynard is still Reynard though he put on a cowl. [ Proverb ]

Though malice darken truth, it cannot put it out. [ Proverb ]

You were put out of the oven for nipping of pies. [ Proverb ]

And as great seamen, using all their wealth
And skills in Neptune's deep invisible paths.
In tall ships richly built and ribbed with brass,
To put a girdle round about the world. [ Geo. Chapman ]

Many dressers put the bride's dress out of order. [ Proverb ]

You dare as well put out one of the devil's teeth. [ Proverb ]

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Light another's candle, but don't put out your own. [ Proverb ]

When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks. [ William Shakespeare ]

God gave thy soul brave wings; put not those feathers
Into a bed to sleep out all ill weathers. [ Herbert ]

Little sticks kindle the fire, great ones put it out. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Put a coward to his mettle and he'll fight the devil. [ Proverb ]

Put your hand no farther than your sleeve will reach. [ Proverb ]

Little sticks kindle a fire, but great ones put it out. [ Proverb ]

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Misers put their back and their belly into their pocket. [ Proverb ]

God put in man thought; society, action; Nature, revery. [ Victor Hugo ]

It is madness to put on gloves when you are stark naked. [ Proverb ]

Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry. [ Col. Blacker ]

There is nothing at all in life except what we put there. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

He had better put his horns in his pocket than blow them. [ Proverb ]

Servants should put on patience when they put on a livery. [ Proverb ]

A fool may chance to put something into a wise man's head. [ Proverb ]

It is in vain to kick, after you have once put on fetters. [ Proverb ]

They were both equally bad; so the devil put them together. [ Proverb ]

He that puts on a public gown must put off a private person. [ Proverb ]

If one, two or three tell you, you are an ass, put on a tail. [ Proverb ]

If you put nothing into your purse, you can take nothing out. [ Proverb ]

Put your finger into the fire, and say it was your ill fortune. [ Proverb ]

Desire of glory is the last garment that even wise men put off. [ Proverb ]

I will not pull the thorn out of your foot to put it into mine. [ Proverb ]

The best way to see divine light, is to put out your own candle. [ Proverb ]

In this world, one must put cloaks on all truths, even the nicest. [ Balzac ]

What, therefore, God hath joined together let not man put asunder. [ Bible ]

He that hath horns in his bosom, let him not put them on his head. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Who hath horns in his bosom, let him not put them on his forehead. [ Proverb ]

Who ever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? [ Milton ]

We should be careful what books we put into the hands of children. [ C. Buck ]

If the bed could tell all it knows, it would put many to the blush. [ Proverb ]

Better far to die in the old harness than to try to put on another. [ Josiah Gilbert Holland (pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) ]

Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men. [ George Sand ]

To be deceived by a promise, is worse than to be put by one's hopes. [ Proverb ]

Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water. [ Auerbach ]

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. [ Proverb ]

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order. [ Jeremy Collier ]

Don't put too fine a point to your wit, for fear it should get blunted. [ Cervantes ]

If an ass kick you, will you kick him again, or put him into the court? [ Proverb ]

Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions. [ H. W. Shaw ]

If you be not content, put your hand in your pocket and please yourself. [ Proverb ]

All you'll get by it, you may put into your eyes, and not see the worse. [ Proverb ]

Would you know how to give? Put yourself in the place of him who receives. [ Mme. de Puisieux ]

Pity it is that no vanity should be put into the composition of women-kind. [ Proverb ]

O, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! [ William Shakespeare ]

The first condition of education is being put to wholesome and useful work. [ John Ruskin ]

Put another man's child into your bosom and he'll creep out at your sleeves. [ Proverb ]

The tears of a whore, and the oaths of a bully, may be put in the same bottle. [ Proverb ]

Wise and good men invented the laws, but fools and the wicked put them upon it. [ Proverb ]

Little ones are taught to be proud of their clothes before they can put them on. [ Locke ]

Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. [ H. W. Beecher ]

The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty. [ Dr. Johnson ]

It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection. [ William Shakespeare ]

Hasten slowly, and without losing heart put your work twenty times upon the anvil. [ Boileau ]

Conjugal Love should never put on or take off his bandage but at an opportune time. [ Balzac ]

He is best served who has no need to put the hands of others at the end of his arms. [ Rousseau ]

Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder. [ Colton ]

Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use. [ Emerson ]

Put a poor man's penny and a rich man's penny into a purse, and they'll come out alike. [ Proverb ]

I hate hypocrites, insolent comedians, who put on their virtues with their white gloves. [ A. de Musset ]

He rejoices more than an old man who has put off old age, (i.e. has become young again). [ Proverb ]

Though you are bound to love your enemy, you are not bound to put your sword in his hand. [ Proverb ]

The last thing that we discover in writing a book is to know what to put at the beginning. [ Pascal ]

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own. [ Proverb ]

Nobody knows who may be listening; say nothing which you would not wish put in the daily paper. [ Spurgeon ]

Religion without piety hath done more mischief in the world than all other things put together. [ Proverb ]

Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box. [ Huxley ]

The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms. [ Rousseau ]

The bigot is like the pupil of the eye, the more light you put upon it, the more it will contract. [ O. W. Holmes ]

Men very rarely put off the trappings of pride till they who are about them put on their winding-sheet. [ Clarendon ]

If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother into the other, the world would kick the beam. [ Lord Langdale ]

Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable. [ Joubert ]

Fools with bookish knowledge are children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain. [ Zimmermann ]

Who can speak broader than he that has no house to put his head in? - Such may rail against great buildings. [ William Shakespeare ]

A true artist should put a generous deceit on the spectators, and effect the noblest designs by easy methods. [ Burke ]

If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe. [ Ovid ]

You cannot put a quartern loaf into a child's head; you must break it up, and give him the crumb in warm milk. [ Spurgeon ]

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance, and make a seeming impossibility give way. [ Jeremy Collier ]

In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Amusements to virtue are like breezes of air to the flame - gentle ones will fan it, but strong ones will put it out. [ David Thomas ]

Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. [ Jesus ]

If you realize an incentive to do a good thing, an act of benevolence, do it at once; do not put it off until tomorrow. [ Henry Home ]

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites. [ Burke ]

God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and the courage to refuse. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

In comparing men and books, one must always remember this important distinction, that one can put the books down at any time. [ N. P. Willis ]

Self-sacrifice is a thing that should be put down by law. It is so demoralizing to the people for whom one sacrifices oneself. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own. [ John Dryden ]

We should have a glorious conflagration if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire. [ Colton ]

Be sad, good brothers, for, by my faith, it very well becomes you: sorrow so royally in you appears, that I will deeply put the fashion on. [ William Shakespeare ]

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give no peace. [ Emerson ]

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves. [ George Eliot ]

The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others. [ Samuel Smiles ]

Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out. [ Latimer ]

How beautiful it is for a man to die on the walls of Zion! to be called like a watch-worn and weary sentinel, to put his armor off, and rest in heaven. [ N. P. Willis ]

The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work. [ Cicero ]

The cuffs and thumps with which fate, our lady-loves, our friends and foes, put us to the proof, in the mind of a good and resolute man, vanish into air. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

God gives the mind, man makes the character. The mind is the garden, the character is the fruit; the mind is the white page, the character is the writing we put upon it. [ George S. Weaver ]

Know the true value of time: snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. [ Lord Chesterfield ]

We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world, but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]

But since, however protracted, death will come. Why fondly study, with ingenious pains. To put it off? - To breathe a little longer is to defer our fate, but not to shun it. [ Hannah More ]

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, - as though that time should be of another make from this, which has already come and is ours. [ Fuller ]

I have tormented the present with the preoccupations of the future; I have put my judgment in the place of Providence, and the happy child has been transformed into a care-worn man! [ E. Souvestre ]

The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first [ Joubert ]

It's not good to let any kid near a container that has a skull and crossbones on it, because there might be a skeleton costume inside and the kid could put it on and really scare you. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement seasons. [ Swift ]

I met a brother who, describing a friend of his, said he was like a man who had dropped a bottle and broken it and put all the pieces in his bosom where they were cutting him perpetually. [ H. W. Beecher ]

Reflection makes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment. [ Hazlitt ]

Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers. [ Marryat ]

God took his softest clay and his purest colors, and made a fragile jewel, mysterious and caressing - the finger of woman; then he fell asleep. The devil awoke, and at the end of that rosy finger put a nail. [ Victor Hugo ]

Tribulation worketh patience: and patience, experience; and experience, hope. That is the order. You can not put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation. [ Alexander Maclaren ]

Put a seal upon your lips and forget what you have done. After you have been kind, after love hath stolen forth into the world and done its beautiful work, go back into the shade again and say nothing about it.

As flowers never put on their best clothes for Sunday, but wear their spotless raiment and exhale their odor every day, so let your righteous life, free from stain, ever give forth the fragrance of the love of God. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less. [ Colton ]

The human heart is like a millstone in a mill: when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and bruises the wheat to flour; if you put no wheat, it still grinds on, but then 'tis itself it grinds and wears away. [ Martin Luther ]

If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus. [ Spurgeon ]

To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed. [ Tillotson ]

Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket. [ Goldsmith ]

I know not whether there exists such a thing as a coin stamped with a pair of pinions; but I wish this were the device which monarchs put upon their dollars and ducats, to show that riches make to themselves wings, and fly away. [ Gotthold ]

Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds, - epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them; they will never forget it. [ Emerson ]

The human heart is like a millstone in a mill; when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds, and bruises the wheat into flour; if you put no wheat in it, it still grinds on; but then it is itself it grinds, and slowly wears away. [ M. Luther ]

Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor claim all its honors without an amount of aid from the talents and labors of others which it is difficult to calculate. [ Bryant ]

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while. [ Emerson ]

O Truth! pure and sacred virgin, when wilt thou be worthily revered? O Goddess who instructs us, why didst thou put thy palace in a well? When will our learned writers, alike free from bitterness and from flattery, faithfully teach us life? [ Voltaire ]

Error soon passes away, unless upheld by restraint on thought. History tells us (and the lesson is invaluable) that the physical force which has put down free inquiry has been the main bulwark of the superstitions and illusions of past ages. [ Channing ]

Whoever can make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. [ Jonathan Swift ]

It seems as if all classes and conditions in life might learn to get more happiness out of their work. To accomplish this, more sentiment and less worry must be put into our efforts, which must also be viewed in their larger relations and possibilities. [ Henry D. Chapin ]

Why does the evening, does the night, put warmer love in our hearts? Is it the nightly pressure of helplessness? or is it the exalting separation from the turmoils of life - that veiling of the world in which for the soul nothing then remains but souls? [ Richter ]

The grave is a sacred workshop of nature! a chamber for the figure of the body; death and life dwell here together as man and wife. They are one body, they are in union; God has joined them together, and what God hath joined together let no man put asunder. [ Hippel ]

Nature gives you the impression as if there were nothing contradictory in the world; and yet, when you return back to the dwelling-place of man, be it lofty or low, wide or narrow, there is ever somewhat to contend with, to battle with, to smooth and put to rights. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices. [ Beecher ]

In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin. [ Lytton ]

I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man. [ Beecher ]

There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into the world with the same design with which men put little fish into a pike pond, in order only to be devoured by that voracious water-hero. [ Fielding ]

Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one. [ Lowell ]

Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms together, and you have St. Paul's Church. So it is with human felicity, which is made up of many ingredients, each of which may be shown to be very insignificant. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Nature, when she amused herself by giving stiff manners to old maids, put virtue in a very bad light. A woman must have been a mother to preserve under the chilling influences of time that grace of manner and sweetness of temper, which prompt us to say, One sees that love has dwelt there. [ Lemontey ]

When you take the wires of the cage apart, you do not hurt the bird, but help it. You let it out of its prison. How do you know that death does not help me when it takes the wires of my cage down? - that it does not release me, and put me into some better place, and better condition of life? [ Bishop Randolph S. Foster ]

The education which has, however, made me a writer has been a living one. I have not only read much, I have seen much, and enjoyed much, and, above all, I have sorrowed much. God has put into my hands every cup of life, sweet and bitter, and the bitter has often become sweet, and the sweet bitter. [ Amelia E. Barr, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit; at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England, and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream. [ Bartol ]

The press, important as is its office, is but the servant of the human intellect, and its ministry is for good or for evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill which grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain, and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread. [ Bryant ]

If you're a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend like you're eating it, but instead, put it all in your lap and form it into a big mushy ball. Then, later, when you're out back having cigars with the boys, let out a big fake cough and throw the ball to the ground. Then say, Boy, these are good cigars! [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

The mother, under whose sole influence the child is for years, from whom it acquires its tastes and character, should not only be educated, but educated in the most thorough manner, and have her mind stored with varied learning, so that she may be able to answer the multitude of questions that will be put to her by her inquisitive child on art, science, literature, and religion, and thus to stimulate his curiosity, and awaken his mind. [ E. B. Ramsay ]

Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness or indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect, we have lost an opportunity, demoralized ourselves, and stolen from the pile of possible good. To be born and not fed, is to perish. To launch a ship and neglect it is to lose it. To have a talent and bury it, is to be a wicked and slothful servant. For in the end we shall be judged, not alone by what we have done, but by what we could have done. [ Maltbie Babcock ]

I put myself, my experiences, my observations, my heart and soul into my work. I press my soul upon the white paper. The writer who does this may have any style, he or she will find the hearts of their readers. Writing a book involves, not a waste, but a great expenditure of vital force. Yet I can assure you I have written the last lines of most of my stories with tears. The characters of my own creation had become dear to me. I could not bear to bid them good-bye and send them away from me into the wide world. [ Amelia E. Barr, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

My method has been simply this - to think well on the subject which I had to deal with and when thoroughly impressed with it and acquainted with it in all its details, to write away without stopping to choose a word, leaving a blank where I was at a loss for it; to express myself as simply as possible in vernacular English, and afterwards to go through what I had written, striking out all redundancies, and substituting, when possible, simpler and more English words for those I might have written. I found that by following this method I could generally reduce very considerably in length what I had put on paper without sacrificing anything of importance or rendering myself less intelligible. [ Sir Austen Henry Layard, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

In the matter of diet - which is another main thing - I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it. Until lately I got the best of it myself. But last spring I stopped frolicking with mince-pie after midnight; up to then I had always believed it wasn't loaded. For thirty years I have taken coffee and bread at eight in the morning, and no bite nor sup until seven-thirty in the evening. Eleven hours. That is all right for me, and is wholesome, because I have never had a headache in my life, but headachy people would not reach seventy comfortably by that road, and they would be foolish to try it. And I wish to urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - that if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go. When they take off the Pullman and retire you to the rancid smoker, put on your things, count your checks, and get out at the first way station where there's a cemetery. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge: it is immortal as the heart of men. If the labors of the men of science should ever create any revolution, direct or indirect, in our condition, and in the impressions which we habitually receive, the poet will then sleep no more than at present; he will be ready to follow the steps of the man of science, not only in those general indirect effects, but he will be at his side, carrying sensation into the midst of the objects of the science itself. The remotest discoveries of the chemist, the botanist, or mineralogist will be as proper objects of the poet's art as any upon which it can be employed, if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by the followers of the respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and suffering beings. If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on. as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the being thus produced as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man. [ Wordsworth ]