Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.

Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

LIGHT FROM WITHIN my friend, cancer got you damn it: you had it beat for seven years at least. how did it come back? Why all that pain. again. and you, such a fighter you fought me over and over with tears and words and promises. you fought for me with honesty and a light so bright it hurts my heart. sweet lorna. at peace now finally no more battles, just light from within a flickering candle in the dark burns with you.

Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.

The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.

The yellow glistens. It glistens with various yellows, Citrons, oranges and greens Flowering over the skin.