Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.

Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.

Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.

The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

...It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.

a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble he's used to before he'll risk a change. Yes. A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. But it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.