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			 A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.  
	 A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. 
		
 
	
			 You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.  
	 You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. 
		
 
	
			 Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.  
	 Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF. 
		
 
	
			 After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.  
	 After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. 
		
 
	
			 Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.  
	 Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy. 
		
 
	
			 Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, read more 
	 Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest. 
		
 
	
			 Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.  
	 Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. 
		
 
	
			 The walls are the publishers of the poor.  
	 The walls are the publishers of the poor. 
		
 
	
			 Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your read more 
	 Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge -- they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.