Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.

POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.

Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

The fog comes on little cat feet.

Now I am here - now read me - give me a name.

And those who say, "I'll try anything once," often try nothing twice, three times, arriving late at the gate of dreams worth dying for.