A Poem Should Be Palpable And Mute

The Dissenter Is Every Human Being At Those Moments Of His Life When He Resigns Momentarily From The Herd And Thinks For Himself.

There Is No Dusk To Be, There Is No Dawn That Was, Only There's Now, And Now, And The Wind In The Grass.

If The Poem Can Be Improved By The Author's Explanations, It Never Should Have Been Published.

The Only Thing About A Man That Is A Man . . . Is His Mind. Everything Else You Can Find In A Pig Or A Horse.

Conventional Wisdom Notwithstanding, There Is No Reason Either In Football Or In Poetry Why The Two Should Not Meet In A Man's Life If He Has The Weight And Cares About The Words.