If I added to their pride of America, I am happy.

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.

Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

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.

Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.

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