Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.

He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.