Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.

Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language.

History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.

Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can't be overcome.

There is no nobler profession, nor no greater calling, than to be among those unheralded many who gave and give their lives to the preservation of human knowledge, passed with commitment and care from one generation to the next.

I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel today is subject to revision tomorrow.

War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.