It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.
A day may sink or save a realm.
If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.
Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
We may have limped onto Broadway as the underdogs, but underdogs bite back occasionally.
That the primary effect of gene mutation may be as simple as the substitution of a single amino acid by another and may lead to profound secondary changes in protein structure and properties has recently been strongly indicated by the work of Ingram on hemoglobin.
The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.
A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.
It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.