An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

If the world were not so full of people, and most of them did not have to work so hard, there would be more time for them to get out and lie on the grass, and there would be more grass for them to lie on.

Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.

Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.

I love you as New Englanders love pie!

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat