Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone.

Blessed be all metrical rules that forbid automatic responses, force us to have second thoughts, free us from the fetters of Self.

Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.

The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.

To my generation no other English poet seemed so perfectly to express the sensibility of a male adolescent. If I do not now turn to him very often, I am eternally grateful to him for the joy he gave me in my youth.

As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.

How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe.