Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

After such knowledge, what forgiveness?

Survival is your strength not your shame.

Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

For you know only a heap of broken images

One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.