I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose = words in their best order - poetry = the best words in the best order.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth will proceed by loving...
Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to...
Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.
Poetry asks people to have values form opinions care about some other part...
Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.
