We are all citizens of history.
Muhammad Ali: Superman Don't need no seat belt. Flight Attendant: Superman Don't need no airplane, either.
Being a child is in itself a profession.
The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.
To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
Wine is a civilizing agent.