#AmericanWriters
Celery, raw Develops the jaw, But celery, stewed, Is more quietly chewed.
I test my bath before I sit, And I’m always moved to wondermen… That what chills the finger not a… Is so frigid upon the fundament.
The summer like a rajah dies, And every widowed tree Kindles for Congregationalist eye… An alien suttee.
The Lord in His wisdom made the f… And then forgot to tell us why.
Nothing makes me sicker than liquor and candy is too expandy
There is one thing that ought to b… Which is that people ought to be t… I don’t mean the kind of apologies… Because I think that is sort of s… No, I object to one kind of apolo…
In January everything freezes. We have two children. Both are sh… This is our January rule: One girl in bed, and one in school… In February the blizzard whirls.
My friends all know that I am shy… But the chipmunk is twice and shy… He moves with flickering indecisio… Like stripes across the television… He’s like the shadow of a cloud,
Oh, “rorty” was a mid-Victorian w… Which meant “fine, splendid, jolly… And often to me it has reoccurred In moments melancholy. For instance, children, I think i…
There is a knocking in the skull, An endless silent shout Of something beating on a wall, And crying, “Let me out!” That solitary prisoner
When people aren’t asking question… They’re making suggestions And when they’re not doing one of… They’re either looking over your s… And then as if that weren’t enough…
A girl whose cheeks are covered wi… Has an advantage with me over one…
Husbands are things that wives have to get used to putting up with. And with whom they breakfast with and sup with. They interfere with the discipline of nurseries, They ...
Behold the duck. It does not cluck. A cluck it lacks. It quacks. It is specially fond
I would live all my life in noncha… Were it not for making a living, w…
