When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

Time flames like a paraffin stove / and what burns are the minutes I live.

A poet is deeply conflicted and it's in his work that he reconciles those deep conflicts. The place is the harbor. It doesn't set the world in order, you know, it's the place of reconciliation. It's the Consolamentum, the kiss of peace.

I have stopped being a misanthrope.

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats

By walking, I found out where I was going.