An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter

We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.

I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don’t want to hear about your troubles.

that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result)

I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a coffee cup in a park for old men playing chess or silly games of some sort.