The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

"Memory holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life... the companion... the tutor, the poet, the library, with which you travel."

"The job of the poet is to render the world -- to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do."

"To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in."

"Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king."