It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.

There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.

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.

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

The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.

More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.