Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only take care of themselves.

The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present -henceforth?- the subject to which you are condemned.

It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree.