"Around, around the sun we go:The moon goes round the earth.We do not die of death:We die of vertigo."
- Archibald MacLeish
"And here face down beneath the sunAnd here upon earth's noonward heightTo feel the always coming onThe always rising of the night"
"A poem should not meanBut be."
"A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off"
"What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists.", American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972]"
"What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it ex"
"What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing."
"As things are now going, the peace we will make, the peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace, in brief... without moral purpose or human inter..."
"We knock upon silence for an answering music."
"To love love and not its meaning, hardens the heart in monstrous ways..." (The Rape Of The Swan)Footnote : A form of self-edification, infatuation, lust and the epitome of hedonism."