I am assured at any rate Man's practically inexterminate. Someday I must go into that. There's always been an Ararat Where someone someone else begat To start the world all over at.

An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.

The only way out is through.

The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day. When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, a cloud come over the sunlit arch, And wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March.

I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

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