Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.

I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

A tough will counts. So does desire.So does a rich soft wanting.Without rich wanting nothing arrives.

Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.

Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.

Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.

Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders.