THE THOUGHTFUL LOVER Deny yourself all half things. Have it or leave it. But it will keep—or it is not worth the having. Never start anything you can't finish— However do not lose faith because you are starved! She loves you she says. Believe it —tomorrow. But today the particulars of poetry that difficult art require your whole attention.

To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force the imagination.

In summer, the song sings itself.

For the beginning is assuredly the end- since we know nothing, pure and simple, beyond our own complexities.

Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth.

Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.

A poem is a small machine made out of words.