I take space to be the central fact to man born in America. I spell it large because it comes large here. Large and without mercy.

Atlantis will rise again.

I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.

I have had to learn the simplest things last. Which made for difficulties.

Knowledge is the harvest of attention

Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from.

What does not change is the will to change

I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.

There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.

An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature.

of rhythm is image / of image is knowing / of knowing there is / a construct

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.

From a timid shy girl I had become a woman of resolute character, who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles.

Repentance doth alter a man's case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.

You can't beat a good sonnet, and you can write a sonnet without being married to the damned thing.

To me John Coltrane was like an angel on earth. He struck me that deeply.

Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price.

Lay aside all rancor, all bitter sectional feeling, and to make your places in the ranks of those who will bring about a consummation devoutly to be wished—a reunited country.

The savages are upon me and I feel my flesh burn beneath the teeth of their indifference.