“Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.”

“[Wine is] poetry in a bottle.”

“When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.”

“Don't be afraid of poetry.”

“The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.”

“Reading to small children is a specialty.”

“Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain.”