We are all — so to speak — intellectuals about something. - Randall Jarrell

People always ask: For whom does the poet write? He needs only to answer, For whom do you do good? Are you kind to your daughter because in the end someone will pay you for being?... The poet writes his poem for its own sake, for the sake of that order of things in which the poem takes the place that has awaited it.

You give me the feeling that the universe Was made by something more than human For something less than human. But I identify myself, as always, With something that there's something wrong with, With something human.

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