The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.