The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.