“Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.”

“Dogs are better than people.”

“I see thee better in the darkI do not need a light.”

“You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor.”

“I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell! They ’d banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog!”

“You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself.”

“I started early, took my dog,And visited the sea;The mermaids in the basementCame out to look at me”