Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off prou… - Carl Sandburg

Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

"They are lovely pigeons to look at and their eyes are full of lessons to learn.."
They came back yesterday, they came back home," was the answer. "They came back limping on their feet with their toes turned in so far they nearly turned backward.
Every day the last six days I get a telegram, six telegrams from six pigeons — and at last they come home.

Night from a railroad car window
is a great, dark, soft thing
Broken across with slashes of light.