Quote #4

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

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  1. I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope …
  2. As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. it is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us. The poet should s…
  3. I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
  4. The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of 'a moment of their other lives' - a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy…
  5. Let us speak of our madness. We are always being called mad. If we are mad - we and our brothers in America who are walking hand in hand wi…
  6. I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
  7. The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to att…
  8. My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

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