Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.

The constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the destruction of poetry.