Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs.

Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.

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.

It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.

Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs.

Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.

I look and look, / As though I could be saved simply by looking