Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

Life is one damned kitten after another." Mehitabel the Alley Cat

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

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

Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella

For him who fain would teach the world The world holds hate in fee- For Socrates, the hemlock cup; For Christ, Gethsemane.