The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.

Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

The pigs stuck out their little feet and snored.

The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.

Bishop on "At the Fishhouses"At the last minute, after I'd had a chance to do a little research in Cape Breton, I foundI'd said codfish scales once when it should have been herring scales. I hope theycorrected it all right.2Quite a few lines of "At the Fishhouses" came to me in a dream, and the scene- whichwas real enough, I'd recently been there-but the old man and the conversation, etc.,were all in a later dream

I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all my life. Maybe one never does.