The civil rights situation is like a pregnancy. It will get worse, I believe, before it gets better. What the usual pregnancy comes to is a decent baby. That is what we all hope will be the end product of this stress. It is customary, at the end of a pregnancy, to have for your pains a decent baby.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.

Writing is a delicious agony.

There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man's shirt on its morning run.

Each body has its art.

beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.