Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.

You have to fall in love with hanging around words.

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

Boys are the cash of war.

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

I have one head that wants to be good, And one that wants to be bad. And always, as soon as I get up, One of my heads is sad.

The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the reader feels in reading it.