I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.

And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching

Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.

And would it have been worth it, after all, Would it have been worth while, After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor - And this, and so much more? -

One starts an action simply because one must do something.

When a Cat adopts you, and I am not superstitious at all I don't mean only Black cats there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.