I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

For we know when a nation goes down and never comes back, when a society or a civilization perishes, one condition may always be found. They forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what brought them along.

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

Alike and ever alike, we are on all continents in the need of love, food, clothing, work, speech, worship, sleep, games, dancing, fun. From tropics to arctics humanity live with these needs so alike, so inexorably alike.