This music brings me to tears….

 Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610

One can immediately tell that the writer was a good man with childish eyes

 St. Francis of Assisi

Breakfast Train

 
Valentines Day

Dark, Pessimistic, But

 brilliant

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Alles

 super

 

Care to go below for a cup of coffee?

 There's plenty of time. We drank our coffee out of paper cups, ...

The dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was doing.

On my boat I had discovered the aluminum, disposable cooking utensils, frying pans and deep dishes. You fry a fish and throw the pan overboard. I opened a can of corned-beef hash and patted it into a disposable dish and set it on an asbestos pad over a low flame,

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

Rocinante, camper truck in which Steinbeck traveled across the United States in 1960

John Steinbeck, He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings

I had to go alone and I had to be self-contained

 John Steinbeck

My Visit to Firenze