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.

A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.

Patience is the art of caring slowly.

Fermentation and civilization are inseparable.

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.

Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations.

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.