"I fear a Pioneer – Himself – The Vanishing Frontier – The Wilderness – in him – No less – than in the Land –"

"They say that 'time assuages' — Time never did assuage — An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age —"

"Renunciation – is a piercing Virtue – The letting go A Presence – for an Expectation –"

"This is my letter to the World That never wrote to Me – The simple News that Nature told – With tender Majesty"

"A Letter always feels to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend."