Poetry Is Not An Assertion Of Truth,

Thinking Of The Key, Each Confirms A Prison.

Good Poets Borrow, Great Poets Steal

If You Do Not Push The Boundaries, You Will Never Know Where They Are.

Simple And Faithless As A Smile And Shake Of The Hand.

It Is Self-evident That St. Louis Affected Me More Deeply Than Any Other Environment Has Ever Done. I Feel That There Is Something In Having Passed One's Childhood Beside The Big River, Which Is Incommunicable To Those People Who Have Not. I Consider Myself Fortunate To Have Been Born Here, Rather Than In Boston, Or New York, Or London.