The young show the genetic process, the old merely die of it.
What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am.
It took most people a lifetime to join the human race.
I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.
But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind's that didn't.
I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.