A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

What are we? Young or new? We must be something.

I am assured at any rate Man's practically inexterminate. Someday I must go into that. There's always been an Ararat Where someone someone else begat To start the world all over at.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.

Hope is not found in a way out but a way through.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.