Hope Is Not Optimism, Which Expects Things

I Suppose I Did Feel A Certain Public Pressure Always.

Yet There Are Times When A Deeper Need Enters, When We Want The Poem To Be Not Only Pleasurably Right But Compellingly Wise, Not Only A Surprising Variation Played Upon The World, But A Re-tuning Of The World Itself.

God Is A Foreman With Certain Definite Views Who Orders Life In Shifts Of Work And Leisure.

Hope Is Not Optimism, Which Expects Things To Turn Out Well, But Something Rooted In The Conviction That There Is Good Worth Working For.

Suspect Too Much Sweet Talk But Never Close Your Mind.