…those who belong properly to books, and to whom books, perhaps, do not quite so properly belong. - William Carlos Williams

I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.

Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.

Your case has been reviewed by high-minded and unprejudiced observers (like hell they were!) the president of a great university, the president of a noteworthy technical school and a judge too old to sit on the bench, men already rewarded for their services to pedagogy and the enforcement of arbitrary statutes. In other words pimps to tradition —