A symbol serves to combine heart and intellect.

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.

Tell me a story of deep delight.

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?

It all began, as I have said, when the Boss, sitting in the black Cadillac which sped through the night, said to me (to Me who was what Jack Burden, the student of history, had grown up to be) "There is always something." And I said, "Maybe not on the Judge." And he said, "Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something.

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.