What if someone gave a war & Nobody came? / Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again.

I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.

It was here we turned the coffee cups upside down. And your eyes and the moon swept the valley.

Let your heart look on white sea spray and be lonely. Love is a fool star. You and a ring of stars may mention my name and then forget me. Love is a fool star.

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.