Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry.

A Canadian is someone who keeps asking the question, 'What is a Canadian?

Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry.

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

A poet is deeply conflicted and it's in his work that he reconciles those deep conflicts. The place is the harbor. It doesn't set the world in order, you know, it's the place of reconciliation. It's the Consolamentum, the kiss of peace.

Idealist: a cynic in the making.