A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

The footpath down to the well is healed.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.

Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that can save them is the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words and fastened to the page for the ear of the imagination. That is all that can save poetry from sing-song, all that can save prose from itself.