To Be A Poet Is A Condition,

When I See Birches Bend To Left And Right... I Like To Think Some Boy's Been Swinging Them.

Sentences Are Not Different Enough To Hold The Attention Unless They Are Dramatic. No Ingenuity Of Varying Structure Will Do. All That Can Save Them Is The Speaking Tone Of Voice Somehow Entangled In The Words And Fastened To The Page For The Ear Of The Imagination. That Is All That Can Save Poetry From Sing-song, All That Can Save Prose From Itself.

I Believe In Teaching, But I Don’t Believe In Going To School.

The Middle Of The Road Is Where The White Line Is - And That's The Worst Place To Drive.

Style Is That Which Indicates How The Writer Takes Himself And What He Is Saying. It Is The Mind Skating Circles Around Itself As It Moves Forward.