Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe.

More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.

The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.

Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary.

A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.