The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length
Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.
Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.
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.
Democracy is the best chance for the best people.
The chance is the remotest, Of its going much longer unnoticed, That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race