Look Before You Leap, or He Who Hesitates Is Lost
The world is full of good advice To spur us on to victory In sayings pithy and concise And flatly contradictory. –Saturday Evening Post, September 1946 –republished in Halfway Up the Sky
Versatile
The trees in summer speak fluent prose Their central theme of greenness flows In leisurely reiterations With rich details and illustrations. In winter they turn to poetry And with exact economy Are clearly unelaborate, Suggesting far more than they state. –From Petals of Light (written in 1947)
Of Courage
I have loved courage; I have loved the word, Its look on any printed pate, its shape On any lips, its meaning, clear unblurred, In weather faces, seeking no escape In bitterness from bitter circumstances, And I have loved it in the candid mind That, scorning easy falsities, advances Toward truth, however, seemingly unkind. I […]