College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.

Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.

The only way round is through.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.