When you get born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a ham trying to get it back, and you are it. Th… - Robert Penn Warren

Accept these images for what they are — Out of the past a fragile element Of substance into accident. I would speak honestly and of a full heart; I would speak surely for the tale is short, And the soul's remorseless catalogue Assumes its quick and piteous sum.

Process as process is neither morally good nor morally bad. We may judge results but not process. The morally bad agent may perform the deed which is good. The morally good agent may perform the deed which is bad. Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.

I don’t expect you’ll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.