What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published.
God cannot catch us. Unless we stay in the unconscious room. Of our hearts.
On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.
We are not alone in our loneliness, others have been here and known griefs we thought our special own.
It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.