Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.

A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

Don't be an agnostic. Be something.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.

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