No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.

Drama began as the act of a whole community. Ideally, there would be no speculators. In practice, every member of the audience should feel like an understudy.

To ask the hard question is simple.

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

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I do not know if such increased awareness makes us more moral or more efficient. I hope not. I think it makes us more human, and I am quite certain it makes us more difficult to deceive.

Learn from your dreams what you lack.