To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.

Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension.

What if they gave a war and nobody came?

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.