Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.