Even If You Are Not Ready For

With Melted Opals For My Milk, Pearl-leaf For My Cracker.

We Are Each Other's Magnitude And Bond.

It Is Brave To Be Involved. To Be Not Fearful To Be Unresolved.

It Frightens Me To Realize That, If I Had Died Before The Age Of Fifty, I Would Have Died A 'negro' Fraction.

I Am An Ordinary Human Being Who Is Impelled To Write Poetry. ... I Still Do Feel That A Poet Has A Duty To Words, And That Words Can Do Wonderful Things, And It's Too Bad To Just Let Them Lie There Without Doing Anything With And For Them.