And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release — out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?

Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension.

I was up day and night with Lincoln for years. I couldn't have picked a better companion.

The impact of television on our culture is. . . indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing.

The impact of television on our culture is just indescribable.

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”