What the Man-Moth fears most he must do.

The pigs stuck out their little feet and snored.

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.

Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.

There are some people whom we envy not because they are rich or handsome or successful, although they may be all or any of these, but because everything they are or do seems to be all of a piece, so that even if they wanted to they could not be or do otherwise.

Close, close all night the lovers keep. They turn together in their sleep, Close as two pages in a book that read each other in the dark. Each knows all the other knows, learned by heart from head to toes.

But he sleeps on the top of his mast with his eyes closed tight. The gull inquired into his dream, which was, "I must not fall. The spangled sea below wants me to fall. It is hard as diamonds; it wants to destroy us all.