Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.

Love becomes the ultimate answer to the ultimate human question.

That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations.

Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast.

Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.