“But time has set its maggot on their track.” — Dylan Thomas

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.

Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.