What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.

Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Only God and I knew what I meant when I wrote it, now only God knows

Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.

I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest.

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.