One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be.

These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.

One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be.

Them lady poets must not marry, pal.

I can offer you only: this world like a knife

There is no such thing as Freedom (though it is the most important condition of human life, after Humility, -which does not exist either). There is only Slavery (walls around one) and absence-of-Slavery (ability to walk in any direction, or to remain still).

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn