The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

Humility is the mother of giants.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.

The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.

We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.