he who gives quickly gives twice / in nothing so much as in a letter.
In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
Revision is its own reward.
Among animals, one has a sense of humor. Humor saves a few steps, it saves years.
Your thorns are the best part of you.
We are suffering from too much sarcasm.