Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
From John Ciardi
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
Poetry lies its way to the truth.
There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
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