History, history! We fools, what do we know or care.

Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.

Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around me I see something very different, let us say - a number of angry dwarfs trying to grill a whale.

Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission.

Love is a young green willow shimmering at the bare wood's edge

My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots.

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