To succeed, find the right rut and stay with it.
Good books do not make people wiser or happier--only more conscious.
Free competition exists inside shelters of law, custom, insurance, political approval, and carefully protected status.
I want to appear ordinary, but I have it understood that I am not.
In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.
I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.