"By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."
"Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world."
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Source: Lives of the Poets: The Story of One Thousand Years of English and American Poetry. Book by Louis Untermeyer, 1959.
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