Harvard University

"There is nowhere to hide when the ball’s spotlight swivels your way,and the chatter around you falls still,and the mothers on the sidelines,your own among them,hold their breathsJ.Updike ’54"

"“The slow overture of rain,Each drop breakingWithout breaking intoThe next, describesThe unrelenting, syncopatedMind.”Jorie Graham, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, From “Mind”"

"i/feel that i cleverly am being altered that i slightly am becoming/something a little different,in fact/myselfHereupon helpless i utter lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings.e.e.cummings AB'15/AM'16"

"We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first timeT.S. Eliot A.B'09 A.M'11 Litt.D'47 from Four Quartets"

"“Fair Harvard! we join in thy Jubilee throng,And with blessings surrender thee o’erBy these festival rites, from the age that is past,To the age that is waiting before.”Samuel Gilman A.B.1811"

"“Today the leaves cry, hanging on branches swept by wind, yet the nothingness of winter becomes a little less. It is still full of icy shades and shapen snow."Wallace Stevens Litt. D. ’51"