"Jack: What do you mean, you think? Can't you tell?"

"When a poet is being a poet — that is, when he is writing or thinking about writing — he cannot be concerned with anything but the making of a poem. If the poem is to turn out well, the poet cannot ha…"

"So long as you live and in whatever circumstances the kaleidoscope of life may place you, think for yourself and act in accordance with the conclusions of that thinking; avoid so far as possible drift…"

"Carlson: Well, I mean creating civilization and stuff, I think they've done a pretty -- I don't know, whatever! I just don't like to think of the world in those terms but"

"I've read the scholarship that explains these verses 'in their context', and I think there's a fancy dance of evasion going on."