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

Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful.

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.

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

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.

I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.