Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day. When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, a cloud come over the sunlit arch, And wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March.

It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage.

Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.

"If it were a dog, it would have bitten you already." Actual Twents: "At e ne hond was, dan e oew allange ebettene." Meaning: Said to someone who is looking for something which is right under his nose. Source: Twents Woordenbook. Twents in Woord en Gebruik.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

I have miles to go before I sleep.