What are men? Children who doubt.

A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.

In Eden who sleeps happiest? The serpent.

I read; I travel; I become

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

Americans are not brought up with meter. They're not brought up with poetry. If you try to get them to recite, they're too embarrassed.