One Must Think Like A Hero To

The Fact Is That I Have Lived With The Belief That Power, Any Kind Of Power, Was The One Thing Forbidden To Poets. ... Power Requires That The Inner Person Never Be Unmasked. No, We Poets Have To Go Naked. And Since This Is So, It Is Better That We Stay Private People; A Naked Public Person Would Be Rather Ridiculous, What?

Where Joy In An Old Pencil Is Not Absurd.

We Are All Jellyfish, Too Pitiful And Too Afraid Of Being Disliked To Be Honest.

... If One Does Not Have Wild Dreams Of Achievement, There Is No Spur Even To Get The Dishes Washed. One Must Think Like A Hero To Behave Like A Merely Decent Human Being.

All Great People Are Humble Because Great People Have Great Work And Are Humbled By The Largeness Of Their Dreams.