"I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the soun..." — Robert Frost

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

The artist in me cries out for design.