There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.

One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Revision is its own reward.

O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!

Excess is the common substitute for energy.

Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.