If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false. - M. H. Abrams

When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that.

Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows you possibilities you haven’t thought of. It enables you to live the lives of other people than yourself. It broadens you, it makes you more human. It makes life enjoyable.

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.