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- The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. — Eric Hoffer
- A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. — William Hazlitt
- Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone. — Albert Einstein
- For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry. — Paul Muldoon
- Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent. — Paul Muldoon
- The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. — Paul Muldoon