"The reason why we have poetry is to have a momentary stay against confusion."

"A poem is never a put-up job."

"The only certain freedom’s in departure."

"School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past."

"I never ask of a pupil who has written a poem, 'What does it mean?' I always ask, 'How did you arrive at that?'"