Randall Jarrell

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.