I was made at right angles to the world and I see it so. I can only see it so.

Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.

And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.

It was cold and windy, scarcely the day to take a walk on that long beach Everything was withdrawn as far as possible, indrawn: the tide far out, the ocean shrunken, seabirds in ones or twos. The rackety, icy, offshore wind numbed our faces on one side; disrupted the formation of a lone flight of Canada geese; and blew back the low, inaudible rollers in upright, steely mist.

I am sorry for people who can't write letters. But I suspect also that you and I ... love to write them because it's kind of like working without really doing it.

Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

The pigs stuck out their little feet and snored.