Merely To Have Survived Is Not An

Poetry Operates By Hints And Dark Suggestions. It Is Full Of Secrets And Hidden Formulae, Like A Witch's Brew.

It Doesnt Seem To Me Strange That Children Should Like The Macabre, The Sensational, And The Forbidden.

A Lot Of The Fun Lies In Trying To Penetrate The Mystery; And This Is Best Done By Saying Over The Lines To Yourself Again And Again, Till They Pass Through The Stage Of Sounding Like Nonsense, And Finally Return To A Full Sense That Had At First Escaped Notice.

If The Heart Has Its Reasons, Perhaps The Body Has Its Own Lumbering Sort Of Carnal Spirit, Felt In The Tingling Bruises Of Collision, And Known To Captains As Esprit De Corps.

There's Not A Good Poet I Know Who Has Not At The Beck And Call Of His Memory A Vast Quantity Of Poetry That Composes His Mental Library.