Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
Carl Sandburg
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- I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
- Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
- Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
- All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
- I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.