Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.
For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.
No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
How to tell students what to look for without telling them what to see is the dilemma of teaching.
It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.
If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
Jesus called fishermen, not graduates of rabbinical schools. The main requirement was to be natural and sincere.
One thing I'd like to do is angel investing in small companies. That's what's exciting, and if you are lucky to have a bit of money, you can take those risks.
The pace of change and the threat of disruption creates tremendous opportunities.
The fact of the matter is it's very reasonable to ask the wealthiest estates to pay their share. We did that since Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican president.