A Dead Man Who Never

It Has Been Said That A Poem Should Not Mean But Be. This Is Not Quite Accurate. In A Poem, As Distinct From Many Other Kinds Of Verbal Societies, Meaning And Being Are Identical. A Poem Might Be Called A Pseudo-person. Like A Person, It Is Unique And Addresses The Reader Personally. On The Other Hand, Like A Natural Being And Unlike A Historical Person, It Cannot Lie.

If Equal Affection Cannot Be, Let The More Loving Be Me.

Mad Ireland Hurt You Into Poetry.

The Friends Who Met Here And Embraced Are Gone, Each To His Own Mistake.

Let Us Honor If We Can The Vertical Man, Though We Value None But The Horizontal One