A poem is at once the most primitive and most sophisticateduse of language, but myemphasisis onthe former.

-Kunitz, StanleyJasspon
  Next-to-Last  Things,'The Wisdom of the Body'.

Communications today puts a special emphasis on what happens next, for an able, sophisticated and competitive press knows that what happens today is no longer newsöit is what isgoing to happen tomorrow that is the object of interest and concern.

-Rusk, (David) Dean
  At Time's 40th anniversary dinner,17 May.

The throat: how strange, that there is not more erotic emphasis upon it. For here, through this compound pulsing pillar, our life makes its leap into spirit, and in the other direction gulps down what it needs of the material world.

-Updike,John Hoyer
  Self-Consciousness, III.'GettingTheWords Out'.