Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

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.

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

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

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.

Men marry what they need. I marry you.

Fermentation equals civilization.