This day of love I take a vow To love you well through all the days Of long and labyrinthine ways: But I would love you anyhow.These words bespeak my unbent will To love despite the passing pain, Anger, lust, fear, silence, shame: But without words I’d love you still. A vow of love’s the final seal Upon an edict fully writ, Not altering [...]

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. - T.S. Elliot September 26, [...]

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life. - J. Krishnamurti

Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to those who have none. - Jules Renard

I think continually of those who were truly great. Who, from the womb, remembered the soul’s history Through the corridors of light where the hours are suns, Endless and singing. Whose lovely ambition Was that their lips, still touched with fire, Should tell of the spirit clothed from head to foot in song, And who hoarded from spring branches The desires [...]

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. -Aristotle