Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.

They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

The little Plumpuppets are fairies of beds; They have nothing to do but watch sleepyheads; They turn down the sheets and they tuck you in tight, And dance on your pillow to wish you good night!

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.