The whole wilderness seems to be alive and familiar, full of humanity. The very stones seem talkative, sympathetic, brotherly.

[last line] The spell was broken. My uncle learned to laugh, and I learned to cry. The secret garden is always open now. Open, and awake, and alive. If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

He has been in form longer than some of our guys have been alive.

Trapped in Purgatory
A lifeless object, alive
Awaiting reprisal
Death will be their acquisition

All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.