History is where tensions were.
When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.
Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.
A teacher is a person who never says anything once.
I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.
The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.