If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the presidents. – John F. Kennedy
Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery – courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things. – James Robinson
What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down. – John Ciardi