iamaproductofme

The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows....

Inside every man there is a poet who died young. Stefan Kanfer

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time. E. B. White, New Yorker, July 3, 1944

Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in...

No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster? Robert Cecil Day Lewis

Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness? Artemus Ward

To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest. Wallace Stevens

Play is an essential function of the passage from immaturity to emotional maturity. Any individual without the opportunities for adequate play in early life will go on seeking them in the stuff of adult life. Margaret Lowenfeld