I heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over again, and said so, again.

I heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over again, and said so, again.

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.'

You can lie at a banquet but you have to be honest in the kitchen.

If you can say it, it begins to exist.

Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.