Poetry Is Often Generations In Advance Of

Poetry Is Often Generations In Advance Of The Thought Of Its Time.

Your Work Is Carved Out Of Agony As A Statue Is Carved Out Of Marble.

It Is Not Possible, For A Poet, Writing In Any Language, To Protect Himself From The Tragic Elements In Human Life.... [ellipsis In Source] Illness, Old Age, And Death--subjects As Ancient As Humanity--these Are The Subjects That The Poet Must Speak Of Very Nearly From The First Moment That He Begins To Speak.

What We Suffer, What We Endure, What We Muff, What We Kill, What We Miss, What We Are Guilty Of, Is Done By Us, As Individuals, In Private.

A Thousand Kindnesses Do Not Make Up For A Thousand Blows.