The skirts of the gods Drag in our mud. We feel the touch And take it to be a kiss.

The best Thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in Look as much like home as we can.

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all?

What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man.