"Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”

“Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.”

“Hatred is blind, as well as love.”

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”

“A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.”

“The meaning of poetry has no sureness of direction; is like the sling, it is not under control.”

“Historically - when you look at how America has evolved, typically we make progress on race relations in fits and starts. We make some progress, and then there's maybe some slippage.”

“The improved means to the unimproved end.”

“We do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it is demonstrated that the new way is better than the old way.”