Organic growth is a cyclical process; it is just as true to say that the oak is a potential acorn as it is to say the acorn is a potential oak. But the process of writing a poem, of making any art object, is not cyclical but a motion in one direction toward a definite end.

The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

Though one cannot always Remember exactly why one has been happy, There is no forgetting that one was.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.

Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason.