“That's called man skills, yo. (On a student's poem about a poem)”

“Do you know about Thor's Hammer? (Points to Bicep) Well, that's it right here.”

“Everyone Except Willie, so now why ”

“It’s hard to be 100% better than your competition, but you can be 1% better in 100 ways.”

“Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born.”

“The Arden Shakespeare is intended both as a student text and as a revision of traditional scholarship. If it is to be used in the first way, then the often narrow thread of text above a sediment of footnotes, something Dr Leavis so deplored, can prove debilitating. Poems, especially the classics of our language, should be read headlong. Dubieties may be looked up later.”

“A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader.”