In rivers the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes so with present time.
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a...
I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.
