If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help. - Randall Jarrell

President Robbins was so well adjusted to his environment that sometimes you could not tell which was the environment and which was President Robbins.

The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced.

She said to Constance, parodying a line of poetry that attracted her, "In the United States, there one feels free." But she spoiled it by continuing, "Except from the Americans — but every pearl has its oyster."