Poetry Is A Dance Music

The Greatest Certainty In Life Is Death. The Greatest Uncertainty Is The Time.

Valor Is A Gift. Those Having It Never Know For Sure Whether They Have It Until The Test Comes.

Out Of Great Russia Came Three Dusky Syllables Workmen Took Guns And Went Out To Die For: Bread, Peace, Land.

I Wrote Poems In My Corner Of The Brooks Street Station. I Sent Them To Two Editors Who Rejected Them Right Off. I Read Those Letters Of Rejection Years Later And I Agreed With Those Editors.

I Decided I Would Go To Chicago And Try My Luck As A Writer After Those Eight Months As A Fireman.