Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of machines) feedback, the advantages of learning from experience and of having developed reflexes.

We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.

Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.

The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon.

I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

Art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world.