I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it
Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor, intruder, insister, you have found a resister.
Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral; he could handle any missile.
If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.
Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.
the small tuft of fronds or katydid legs above each eye, still numbering the units in each group; the shadbones regularly set about the mouth, to droop or rise
the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell buoys, advances as usual, looking as if it were not that ocean in which dropped things are bound to sink-- in which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor consciousness.
Sun and moon and day and night and man and beast each with a splendor which man in all his vileness cannot set aside; each with an excellence!
Victory won't come to me unless I go to it; a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times
What is there in being able to say that one has dominated the stream in an attitude of self-defense; in proving that one has had the experience of carrying a stick?
Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps; opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.
I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.
The deft white-stockinged dance in thick-soled shoes! Denmark's sanctuaried Jews!
Concurring hands divide flax for damask that when bleached by Irish weather has the silvered chamois-leather water-tightness of a skin.
When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.
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