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

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.

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

Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.

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.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.