"We don t read and write poetry because it s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering -- these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty,romance, love -- these are what we stay alive for."
"I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life ,and not to put to rout all that was not life, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived.”