A Human Being: An Ingenious Assembly Of

Read, Every Day, Something No One Else Is Reading. Think, Every Day, Something No One Else Is Thinking.

When Abraham Lincoln Was Murdered The One Thing That Interested Matthew Arnold Was That The Assassin Shouted In Latin As He Lept On The Stage This Convinced Matthew There Was Still Hope For America.

People Like To Imagine That Because All Our Mechanical Equipment Moves So Much Faster, That We Are Thinking Faster, Too.

There Are Certain People Whom One Feels Almost Inclined To Urge To Hurry Up And Die So That Their Letters Can Be Published.

The World, In Its Sheer Exuberance Of Kindness, Will Try To Bury The Poet With Warm And Lovely Human Trivialities. It Will Even Ask Him To Autograph Books.