I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.

Human bodies are words, myriads of words, (In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay, Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame.)

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught.