The one man who should never attempt an …

The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by it’s author’s explanations it never should have been published, and if the poem cannot be improved by its author’s explanations the explanations are scarcely worth reading.

Quote, saying and phrase by: Archibald MacLeish

The one important thing I have learned o…

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one’s work seriously and taking one’s self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

Quote, saying and phrase by: Margot Fonteyn

The one absolutely certain way of bringi…

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of continuing to be a nation at all would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

Quote, saying and phrase by: Theodore Roosevelt