We think about sex obsessively except during the act, when our minds tend to wander.

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

Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.

Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?

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.

Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.

We think about sex obsessively except during the act, when our minds tend to wander.