"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not."

"The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it."

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

"I never ask of a pupil who has written a poem, 'What does it mean?' I always ask, 'How did you arrive at that?'"

"Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice."