Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.

Virgil Thomson

Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this freedom lies his superiority over the forces that pervade his outward life. He is that unique organism in terms of matter and energy, space and time, which is urged to conscious purpose. Reason is his characteristic and indistinguishing principle. But man is only man -- and free -- when he considers himself as a total being in whom the unmediated whole of feeling and thought is not severed and who impugns any form of atomization as artificial, mischievous, and predatory.

Ruth Nanda Anshen

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Wilson Mizner

A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.

Proverb

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.

A. R. Ammons

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

H. L. Mencken

I love to travel. I'm a curious person.

Hilary Swank

Self discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back.

W. K. Hope

Mercy to living beings, self restraint, truth, honesty, chastity and contentment, right faith and knowledge, and austerity are but the entourage of morality.

SilaPrabhrita

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.

Edgar Saltus

I think it's real easy to be famous these days it's not real easy to sustain success.

Jerry Jeff Walker