A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.

I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.

A writer should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.

The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change.

Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web?

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

My prose style at this time was a stomach-twisting blend of the Bible, Carl Sandburg, H.L. Mencken, Jeffrey Farnol, Christopher Morley, Samuel Pepys, and Franklin Pierce Adams imitating Samuel Pepys. I was quite apt to throw in a "bless the mark" at any spot, and to begin a sentence with "Lord" comma.