Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree.

Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.

I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.

I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.

The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.

The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.