Private faces in public places Are wiser and nicer Than public faces in private places.

It has been said that a poem should not mean but be. This is not quite accurate. In a poem, as distinct from many other kinds of verbal societies, meaning and being are identical. A poem might be called a pseudo-person. Like a person, it is unique and addresses the reader personally. On the other hand, like a natural being and unlike a historical person, it cannot lie.

God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.

Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself.

When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.

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.

Water is the soul of the Earth.