Day: February 8, 2014

What is to be done with people who can’t read a Sunday paper without messing it all up?… Show me a Sunday paper which has been left in a condition fit only for kite flying, and I will show you an antisocial and dangerous character who has left it that way.

Robert Benchley
Robert Benchley (1889–1945), U.S. writer, humorist. No Poems or Around the World Backwards and Sideways, “The Wreck of the Sunday Paper,” Harper & Brothers (1932).

How many times these low feet staggered—
Only the soldered mouth can tell—

Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), U.S. poet. How many times these low feet staggered (l. 1–2).

CP-Di. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (1960) Little, Brown.