An Old Poet Ought Never To Be

I Refuse To Turn To Theology To Justify The Life Or Redeem It. There Is A Question Always Of The Connection To The Eternal. I Say To Myself Above All, Keep Alive Your Conviction That There Are Sacred Elements In The Life In The Practice Of The Life That Must Be Respected. But The Conviction In The Existence Of The Sacred Does Not Necessarily Imply That You Need To Believe In A Creator, Because We Are The Ones That Made The Sacred.

Be What You Are. Give What Is Yours To Give. Have Style. Dare.

An Old Poet Ought Never To Be Caught With His Technique Showing.

Memory Is Each Man's Poet-in-residence.

The Ear Writes My Poems, Not The Mind.