We Don't Ask A Flower Any Special

A Poem Doesn't Do Everything For You. You Are Supposed To Go On With Your Thinking. You Are Supposed To Enrich The Other Person's Poem With Your Extensions, Your Uniquely Personal Understandings, Thus Making The Poem Serve You.

The Poetry Is Myself.

I Like The Concentration, The Crush; I Like Working With Language, As Others Like Working With Clay, Or Notes.

One Reason Cats Are Happier Than People Is That They Have No Newspapers.

... Sometimes You Have To Deal / Devilishly With Drowning Men In Order To Swim Them To Shore.