1. “Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.”
2. “Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.”
3. “The literature of the world has exerted its power by being translated.”
4. “There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down with it into chaos and confusion.”
5. “The first thing to do about a problem is to recognize it; the second thing is to state it; the third thing is to solve it.”
6. “There is one thing we can do, and the happiest of people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present.”
7. “To fail in love is not to exist at all.”
8. “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”
9. “Our best chance for happiness is education.”
10. “There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded.”
11. “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 .”
12. “Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.”
13. “It is astonishing how few stories have been told perfectly.”
14. “Bring in ideas and entertain them royally, for ne of them may be the king.”
15. “Great periods of poetry begin with an inordinate self-consciousness, and only gradually attain to the natural.”
