“The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.”

A characteristically dry observation on the demands of later life · Remark quoted in Time, 1950

• Mortality
• Time

“The rarest experience is to come across a new poet who strikes you as so good that you don't need anybody's judgment but your own.”

Describing the uncommon certainty of encountering an unmistakably powerful new poetic voice · Essay, The Publishing of Poetry

• Art
• Poetry

“There is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause.”

Questioning the permanence of both defeat and victory · Essay, Francis Herbert Bradley

• Despair
• Hope
• Time