“In his mind he was always leaving, always going somewhere, always doing something else.”

“The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.”

“I go out on the side of a hill, maybe hunting deer, and sit there and see the shadow of night coming over the hill, and I can swear to you there is a part of me that is absolutely untouched by anyt...”

“I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.”

“I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around. ... I like to take this day- any day-and go to town with it.”

“Flight is the only true sensation that men have achieved in modern history.”

“Im not a woman you bring home to Mother, pick out china patterns with, or Mary forefend, breed. Ive seen a chunk of the universe, true, but theres still so much more to see. I doubt Ill ever cure t...”

“My hope, my heaven, my trust must be,My gentle guide, in following thee.”

“Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmonious...”