The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.

What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.

The people I want to hear about are the people who take risks.

It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.

I shall set forth for somewhere, I shall make the reckless choice Some say when they are in voice And tossing so as to scare The white clouds over them on, I shall have less to say, But I shall be none.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.