I Am Awakened Each Dawn Increasingly To

I Work All Day, And Get Half-drunk At Night.

And The Case Of Butterflies So Rich It Looks As If All Summer Settled There And Died.

As A Guiding Principle I Believe That Every Poem Must Be Its Own Sole Freshly Created Universe, And Therefore Have No Belief N 'tradition' Or A Common Myth-kitty Or Casual Allusions In Poems To Other Poems Or Poets, Which Last I Find Unpleasantly Like The Talk Of Literary Understrappers Letting You See They Know The Right People.

Life And Literature Is A Question Of What One Thrills To, And Further Than That No Man Shall Ever Go Without Putting His Foot In A Turd.

Walk With The Dead For Fear Of Death.