The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth...

Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

You're looking, sir, at a very dull survivor of a very gaudy life. Crippled, paralyzed in both legs. Very little I can eat, and my sleep is so near waking that it's hardly worth the name. I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider.

It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.