Poetry Makes Possible The Deepest Kind Of

To Live A Very Long Time... Is Supposed To Be The Desired Object Of All Human Life. But It Is Not. The Main Thing Is To Ride The Flood Tide... How Glorious It Is To Create! For Those Few Moments Of A Lifetime When The Stream Is Running Full And Deep: Those Are The Justification For Everything.

Then You Develop A Kind Of Critical Sense About What You Write. You Can Tell When Something Is Good, But It Would Be Just As Good In Somebody Else's Work Too. You Want To Hold Out For Those Things Only You Can Say.

To Be Precise And Reckless: That Is The Consummation Devoutly To Be Wished.

He Can't Imagine The Result Of The Mission Because He Never Saw It.

There Ain't Nothin' To Dyin', Really. You Just Get Tired. You Kind Of Drift Away.