The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.
“The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.”
“Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for others, call it class spirit, esprit de corps, good fellowship, or good will to men.”