My father also happened to be an intellectual as learned literate informed and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually he was my wise and gentle teacher.
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive a thing which enters into one's soul and does not startle it or amaze it with itself but with its subject.
The art of motherhood involves much silent unobtrusive self-denial an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside dreams who looks inside awakes.