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A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that same smell was the... →
Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana State... →
When your first marriage goes into tragedy, you become very battle-scarred... I even thought of suicide. Luckily, I had known some happy marriages.
Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But they were sleigh bells, not church bells, for we... →
The corncob was the central object of my life. My father was a horse handler, first trotting and pacing horses, then coach horses, then work horses... →
I knew about holiness, never having missed a Sunday-school class since I started at four years. But if Jews were also religious, how could our... →
Soldiers of the American Revolution fought that 18th century war with heavy muskets. In the early 20th century, we kids fought it every Fourth of... →
There must be an alternative between Hollywood and New York, between those two places psychically as well as geographically. The University of Iowa... →
For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That... →
I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys.
Other families bought automobiles; we had a horse-headed hitching post in front of our house and drove horses.
All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love.
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