The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from "Neutral Tones")

War makes good history but peace is poor reading.

I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.

My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.

That cold accretion called the world, so terrible in the mass, is so non formidable, even pitiable, in its units.

In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving. Nature does not often say 'See!' to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply 'Here!' to a body's cry of 'Where?' till the hide-and-seek has become an irksome outworn game.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.