Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

i never think at all when i write / nobody can do two things at the same time / and do them both well.

a great many people / who spend their time mourning / over the brevity of life / could make it seem longer / if they did a little more work.

the females of all species are most / dangerous when they appear to retreat.

we parted each feeling / superior to the other / and is not that / feeling after all one of the great / desiderata of social intercourse.

i have noticed / that when / chickens quit / quarreling over their / food they often / find that there is / enough for all of them / i wonder if / it might not / be the same way / with the / human race.

Many a man spanks his / children for / things his own / father should have / spanked out of him.

did you ever / notice that when / a politician / does get an idea / he usually / gets it all wrong.

i suppose the human race / is doing the best it can / but hells bells thats / only an explanation / its not an excuse.

too many creatures / both insects and humans / estimate their own value / by the amount of minor irritation / they are able to cause / to greater personalities than themselves.