Nothing is the force that renovates the World.

I miss the grasshoppers much, but suppose it is all for the best. I should become too much attached to a trotting world.

You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea - I can count the bitter wrecks here in these pleasant waters, and hear the murmuring winds, but oh, I love the danger!

To shut your eyes is to travel.

The steeples swam in amethyst, the news like squirrels swam.

You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor.

They address an Eclipse every morning, whom they call their "Father."