"It is the Wisdom of this World which demonstrates to us that the Wisdom of this World isn't enough."

-Randall Jarrell (speaking of Robert Frost's poem "Provide Provide")


"I know nothing--I have read nothing--and I mean to follow Solomon's directions, 'get learning--get understanding.' I find earlier days are gone by--I find that I can have no enjoyment in the World but continual drinking of Knowledge. I find there is no worthy pursuit but the idea of doing some good to the world. Some do it with their society--some with their wit--some with their benevolence--some with a sort of power of conferring pleasure and good humor on all they meet."

-John Keats (in a letter to John Taylor, April 24, 1818)