The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
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.
Boys are the cash of war.
Let our love be like an arch- two weaknesses leaning together to form one strength.
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
The public library is the most dangerous place in town