The Courage Of The Poet Is To

Continually One Faces The Horrible Matter Of Making Decisions. The Solution Is, As Far As Possible, To Avoid Conscious Rational Decisions And Choices; Simply To Do What You Find Yourself Doing; To Float In The Great Current Of Life With As Little Friction As Possible; To Allow Things To Settle Themselves, As Indeed They Do With The Most Infallible Certainty.

Words Are A Commodity In Which There Is Never Any Slump.

The World, In Its Sheer Exuberance Of Kindness, Will Try To Bury The Poet With Warm And Lovely Human Trivialities. It Will Even Ask Him To Autograph Books.

There Is An Innate Decorum In Man, And It Is Not Fair To Thrust Truth Upon People When They Don't Expect It. Only The Very Generous Are Ready For Truth Impromptu.

A Doctor Is Advertised By The Bodies He Cures. My Business Is Advertised By The Minds I Stimulate. And Let Me Tell You That The Book Business Is Different From Other Trades. People Don't Know They Want Books. I Can See Just By Looking At You That Your Mind Is Ill For Lack Of Books But You Are Blissfully Unaware Of It!