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“The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.”
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“Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it”
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“Well, when Eleanor Roosevelt's mother dies, she goes to live with her Grandmother Hall. And her Grandmother Hall is in mourning. She's in widow's weeds. She's in her 50s, but appears very old. And she's exhausted from raising rather out-of-control children. Her favorite daughter, Anna, has died (Eleanor's mother), and she has living at home two other sons, Vallie and Eddie. And they are incredible sportsmen, incredible drinkers, out-of-control alcoholics.”
Source : Source: www.pbs.org
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“Numb is the new deep, done with the old me, and talk is the same cheap it's been.”
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“God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.”
Source : 1942 Good Intentions,'The Fly'.
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“No clouds are in the morning sky, The vapors hug the stream, Who says that life and love can die In all this northern gleam? At every turn the maples burn, The quail is whistling free, The partridge whirs, and the frosted burs Are dropping for you and me. Ho! hillyho! heigh O! Hillyho! In the clear October morning.”
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“The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good.”
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“Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.”
