Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!

Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!

Come, drink the mystic wine of Night, Brimming with silence and the stars; While earth, bathed in this holy light, Is seen without its scars.

Nothing but blackness above And nothing that moves but the cars... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us a handful of stars!

Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.

Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung, what praises said For home-made miracles of bread?

Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable.