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.

Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation

I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.

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.

I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.

There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.

The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing.