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"The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.""

"The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life."

"Let the people think they govern and they will be governed."

"Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends."

"History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man."

"Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder."

"Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted."

"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."

"Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't."

"I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel."

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."

"Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures."

"Creation science is an attempt to give credibility to Hebrew mythology by making people believe that the world's foremost biologists, paleontologists, and geologists are a bunch of incompetent nincompoops."

"The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century."

"To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places."

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."

"Only the dead have seen the end of the war."

"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."

"Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend."

"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better."

"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."

"Before we work on artificial intelligence why don't we do something about natural stupidity?"

"I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago."

"The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little."

"Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages."

"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own."

"If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos."

"A man's dreams are an index to his greatness."

"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other."

"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky."