The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

The darkness declares the glory of light.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.