We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.

There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.

Lovers, forget your love And list to the love of these She a window flower And he a winter breeze.

I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.