Who could believe an ant in theory? A giraffe in blueprint? Ten thousand doctors of what's possible Could reason half the jungle out of being.

General rules have been legislated into being by past masters.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

Let our love be like an arch- two weaknesses leaning together to form one strength.

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.

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.