To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music.

I remember the Chillicothe ballplayers grappling the Long Island ball players in a sixteen-inning game ended by darkness. And the shoulders of the Chillicothe players were a red smoke against the sundown and the shoulders of the Rock Island players were a yellow smoke against the sundown. And the umpire's voice was hoarse calling balls and strikes and outs and the umpire's throat fought in the dust for a song.

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.

Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night.