My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.