When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.
Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?
I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
Don't blindly follow any leader.
I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.
Twice in his life Eugene Victor Debs took the long leap to the Ultima Thule of prison, passing beyond the realm of the acceptable into the nonacceptable, from respectability into the criminal community of the monster who was an enemy to the people.