The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity.

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

Of course,Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.