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A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

Be obscure clearly.

Commuter - One who spends his life in riding to and from his wife; a man who shaves and takes a train, and then rides back to shave again.

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

His (critics) words leap across rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long.

Humour plays close to the big, hot fire, which is the truth, and the reader feels the heat.

I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart 'til it stops beating."

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

I liked to sail alone. The sea was the same as a girl to me - I did not want anyone else along.

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I rise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savour) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess it always will. But I love it just the same.

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.

Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society – things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.

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