Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Which is - you know like check it out I'm pretty young I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book right?

But to me nothing - the negative the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

I should just put it bluntly because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh so Jesus what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning and I don't want to go there.

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words mine and thine were taken away.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

If we look at the realm of knowledge how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses how wide is that we gain from other sources.

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.

I think health is another exceedingly important thing.