As readers, we remain in the nursery stage so long as we cannot distinguish between taste and judgment, so long, that is, as the only possible verdicts we can pass on a book are two: this I like; this I don't like. For an adult reader, the possible verdicts are five: I can see this is good and I like it; I can see this is good but I don't like it; I can see this is good and, though at present I don't like it, I believe that with perseverance I shall come to like it; I can see that this is trash but I like it; I can see that this is trash and I don't like it.

Those who hate to go to bed fear death; those who hate to get up fear life.

Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.

Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.

Weep for the lives your wishes never led.

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

Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.