I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.

I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have out walked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet. When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye; And further still at an unearthly light, One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night.

The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.