Oh, Georgia booze is mighty fine booze, The best yuh ever poured yuh, But it eats the soles right offen yore shoes, For Hell's broke loose in Georgia.

You can take off your hats now, gentlemen, and I think perhaps you'd better.

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.

Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot of exciting things.

American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are as various as your land.

I do think that the kind of writing that I do will always be around and printed in books, magazines, and now blogs.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.