Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page.

I think a blog is a catalyst for a number of possible kinds of writing besides being its own medium.

I died in my boots like a pioneer With the whole wide sky above me.

Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.

One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart.

Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.

American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are as various as your land.