It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their conviction. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their convictions.

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

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.

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

General rules have been legislated into being by past masters.

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.