The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.

What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

The only way out is to go through

All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.

Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.

Writing a poem is discovering.