When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.

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.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

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.

The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are slow, but no book can be understood if it is taken at the wrong speed.