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.

There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.

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.

We love the things we love for what they are.

The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.