Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.

Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.

History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.

Cling, swing, Spring, sing, Swing up into the apple tree.