To fail to love is not to exist at all.

A classic is a book that remains in print

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.

There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down with it into chaos and confusion.

Our best chance for happiness is education.

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.