To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of the world of discourse, is to separate seeing from the feel of seeing, emotion from the acting of emotion, knowledge from the realization of knowledge.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.

To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of the world of discourse, is to separate seeing from the feel of seeing, emotion from the acting of emotion, knowledge from the realization of knowledge.

Autumn is the American season. In Europe the leaves turn yellow or brown, and fall. Here they take fire on the trees and hang there flaming. We think this frost-fire is a portent somehow: a promise that the continent has given us. Life, too, we think, is capable of taking fire in this country; of creating beauty never seen.

Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.