“Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.”
“Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.”
“any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man”
“It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.”
“Was it better to get as much out of the moment as possible, knowing it could slip out from under you in a second? Was the actual experience better than the inevitable conclusion?”
“I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics.”