Take earth for your own large room and the floor of earth carpeted with sunlight and hung round with silver wind for your dancing place.

Body my house my horse my hound what will I do when you are fallen

The summer that I was ten - Can it be there was only one summer that I was ten? It must have been a long one then.

Bat doesn't hit ball, bat meets it.

Poetry can magnify experience.

Love is ... the bite into bread again.

Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.

I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.

Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd run barefoot, relax a bit more, I'd talk more to children, and I'd learn how they laugh.

My dream when I was 14 was someday I could have a David Levine caricature of me in 'The New York Review of Books.'

Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.

Probably." "Again with the probablys." "A world full of probablys," she said.

To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that comes from God.

People have been educated to expect answers, even before the questions come along. It's the TV principle. You offer three possible answers before the questions come to relax and calm the audience.

How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise?