As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.
Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.
Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild.
I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
