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I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

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I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.

I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.

There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

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