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

For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.

At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.

Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.