A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer… He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
E.B. White Quotes
To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year.
The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
If any old farmer can keep and hive me, Then any old drone may catch and wife me; I’m sorry for creatures who cannot pair On a gorgeous day in the upper air, I’m sorry for cows that have to boast Of affairs they’ve had by parcel post, I’m sorry for a man with his […]
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
‘Whose is that head that I see on the wall?’ Said John D.’s grandson Nelson. ‘Is it anyone’s head whom we know, at all? ‘A Rensselaer, or a Saltonstall? ‘Is it Franklin D.? Is it Mordaunt Hall? Or is it the head of a Russian? ‘I paint what I think,’ said Rivera. ‘It’s not good […]
The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself-a lad of about 19.
