“The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.”

“The best way out is always through.”

“He says the best way out is always through. / And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through”

“The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.”

“Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.”

“If you should rise from Nowhere up to Somewhere, From being No one up to being Someone, Be sure to keep repeating to yourself You owe it to an arbitrary god Whose mercy to you rather than to others Won’t bear to critical examination. Stay unassuming. If for lack of license To wear the uniform of who you are, You should be tempted to make up for it In a subordinationg look or toe, Beware of coming too much to the surface And using for apparel hat was meant To be the curtain of the inmost soul.”

“A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.”