At midnight tears Run into your ears.

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.

It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.

No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.

The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?

I have lost faith in universal panaceas - work is the one thing in which I really believe.