But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.

But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.

The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood. I can imagine a small gathering of friends who say nothing all evening: they recoil from saying anything that the others don't want to hear; and their silence would be the subtlest courtesy.