I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

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

My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.

Tell him solitude is creative if he is strong and the final decisions are made in silent rooms. Tell him to be different from other people if it comes natural and easy being different. Let him have lazy days seeking his deeper motives. Let him seek deep for where he is a born natural. Then he may understand Shakespeare and the Wright brothers, Pasteur, Pavlov, Michael Faraday and free imaginations Bringing changes into a world resenting change. He will be lonely enough to have time for the work he knows as his own.

Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension.

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.