Randal Jarell from "The Lost World"

"... In my
Talk with the word, in which it tells me what I know
And I tell it, "I know--" how strange that I
Know nothing, and yet it tells me what I know! --
I appreciate the animals, who stand by
Purring. Or else they sit and pant. It's so --
So agreeable. If only people purred and panted!"

- Randal Jarell, from "The Lost World"