Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the differences between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten, none are undeservedly remembered

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.