No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
From Robert Frost
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
To be social is to be forgiving.
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