we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful.

Nature always levies her tribute.

My publishers will make any kind of a beautiful book I design and send in to them, but ... For poetry they have less use than a rooster would have for skates.

Be sure that you are right; and then go ahead.

Money was their God; work their religion.

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

the occasional cries of a lost loon, strayed from its flock in northern migration, fill the swamp with sounds of wailing.