"There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies."

"The world is full of willing people some willing to work, the rest willing to let them."

"The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion."

"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."

"When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not."

"Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow."

"I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil."

"You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler."