Our best chance for happiness is education.

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.

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.

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.

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

A classic is a book that remains in print

I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension—the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds.