America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him. – Henry Miller
I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it. – Allen Tate