Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.
For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.
Why should not a poet's cat be winged as well as his horse?
The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea.