If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same goes for paintings.

Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.

Something needn't be large to be good.

I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?

The pigs stuck out their little feet and snored.

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.

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