Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.

I chose life over death for myself and my friends... I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.

Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.

From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.

I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.

We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.

No person who has not spent a period of his life in those 'stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole' will understand fully what trees and flowers, sun-flecked turf and running streams mean to the soul of a man