The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

It's hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it, and what's in between doesn't make much sense.