诗歌应当以优美的丰盈而非奇特来使人惊喜——它应当让读者觉得表达了他自己最高尚的思想，几乎像是一种回忆。
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity—it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
The moral feeling of human nature is an obligation， and we must endow the soul with the sense of beauty.
最好的想法往往来自意想不到的地方。
过去的33年里，我每天早晨都会看着镜子问自己：“如果今天是我生命中的最后一天，我会想做今天将要做的事吗？”每当答案连续很多天都是“否”时，我知道我需要改变一些事情。
the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
