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

He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

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

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away / You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.

Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.