No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous— Almost, at times, the Fool.

The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less.

A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.

With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.'