Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses out of courses in mathematics, natural history, geology, meteorology, archaeology, mythology, liturgics, cooking.

To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however "good" I may become, remains unchanged.

Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.