Of my childhood & youth the greater part of which had been spent in an atmosphere of cultural twilight. - Vernon Scannell

The desire of a poet for his writings to be in print is as natural as a painter needs to exhibit his work in public.

Whether we are writing prose or verse we must never use language in a merely decorative way, every qualifying word, every adjective and adverb must be carefully inspected & weighed before it is used and ask before its use , is it really necessary.

Past events are not dead but constantly making their claims on the present, modifying it even as they themselves are modified in the maw of subsequent events and in the memory which is part of the shaping of imagination.