I Revise The Manuscript Till I Can't

One Smile Relieves A Heart That Grieves.

We Forget Cruelty And Past Betrayal, Heedless Of Where The Next Bright Bolt May Fall.

Never Use The Word 'audience.' The Very Idea Of A Public, Unless The Poet Is Writing For Money, Seems Wrong To Me. Poets Don't Have An 'audience'. They're Talking To A Single Person All The Time.

I Do Not Love The Sabbath, The Soapsuds And The Starch, The Troops Of Solemn People Who To Salvation March. I Take My Book, I Take My Stick On The Sabbath Day, In Woody Nooks And Valleys I Hide Myself Away. To Ponder There In Quiet God's Universal Plan, Resolved That Church And Sabbath Were Never Made For Man.

A Well-chosen Anthology Is A Complete Dispensary Of Medicine For The More Common Mental Disorders, And May Be Used As Much For Prevention As Cure.