To Be A Poet Is A Condition,

You've Often Heard Me Say - Perhaps Too Often - That Poetry Is What Is Lost In Translation. It Is Also What Is Lost In Interpretation. That Little Poem Means Just What It Says And It Says What It Means, Nothing Less But Nothing More.

It Takes All Sorts Of In And Outdoor Schooling To Get Adapted To My Kind Of Fooling.

One Could Do Worse Than Be A Swinger Of Birches.

Bounds Should Be Set To Ingenuity For Being So Cruel In Bringing Change Unheralded On The Unready.

I Hope To Leave Behind A Few Poems It Will Be Hard To Get Rid Of.