We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

life is long between the desire and the spasm.

A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

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