Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

We're either nothing or a God's regret.

I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole city is so lovely that you do not have to write it up to make it poetry; it is ready-made for you. But, I don't know - the poetry written in that city might not seem like poetry if read outside of the city. It would be like the jokes made when you were drunk; you have to get drunk again to appreciate them.

Good fences make good neighbors.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.

Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.