Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.

As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.

Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.

Man's world' and 'woman's place' have confronted each other since Scylla first faced Charybdis. ... if women have only a place, clearly the rest of the world must belong to someone else and, therefore, in default of God, to men.

Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur.

Humor is an antidote to isolation.

If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't go.