Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.

You are out of the way of temptation and out of the way of the tempter - I didn't mean to make you wicked - but I was - and am - and shall be - and I was with you so much that I couldn't help contaminate.

The Crime, from us, is hidden, [though] he is presumed to know.

Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the mountains Can the sailor understand The divine intoxication Of the first league out from land?

This is the Hour of Lead- Remembered, if outlived, As freezing persons, recollect the Snow- First-Chill-then Stupor- then the letting go---

An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart So dangerously near.

To be alive──is Power.