Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.

In the nature of things, a person engaged in the flimsy business of expressing himself on paper is dependent on the large general privilege of being heard. Any intimation that this privilege may be revoked throws a writer into panic.

The young writer should learn to spot them: words that at first glance seem freighted with delicious meaning, but that soon burst in the air, leaving nothing but a memory of bright sound.

Thus I, gone forth, as spiders do, In spider’s web a truth discerning, Attach one silken strand to you For my returning.

A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.

Oh, I never look under the hood.

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.