The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.

Our best chance for happiness is education.

The literature of the world has exerted its power by being translated.

There is one thing we can do, and the happiest of people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present.

If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.