When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree.

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.

This Constitutional Republic called America is an historic aberration. Any honest student of history will note that the prevailing socio-economic system is feudalism, where a tiny minority control the vast majority of wealth, power, and resources. In doing so, they have absolute control over the 99% of the population. Power equals control.

I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.