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

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

Survival is your strength not your shame.

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.

The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.

The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.

Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!