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 (All The King's Men)

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.

Dying--shucks! If you kin handle the living, what's to be afraid of the dying?

More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.

A look at the past reminds us of how great is the distance, and how short, over which we have come. The past makes us ask what we have done with us. It makes us ask whether our very achievements are not ironical counterpoint and contrast to our fundamental failures.

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.

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