Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.
The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of "a moment of their other lives" a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.
One's own surroundings means so much to one, when one is feeling miserable.
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Winter is the time for comfort - it is the time for home.
Your soul: pure glucose edged with hints Of tentative and half-soiled tints
All consolation that does not come from God is but desolation; when the soul has learned to receive no comfort but in God only, it has passed beyond the reach of desolation.
When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.
To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power.
I'll tell you one thing, they [my kids] all do love to hunt and fish. When they get together, I think that's what they get together more for than anything else.