When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.