Literature Bores Me, Especially Great

Them Lady Poets Must Not Marry, Pal.

I Do Strongly Feel That Among The Greatest Pieces Of Luck For High Achievement Is Ordeal. Certain Great Artists Can Make Out Without It, Titian And Others, But Mostly You Need Ordeal. My Idea Is This: The Artist Is Extremely Lucky Who Is Presented With The Worst Possible Ordeal Which Will Not Actually Kill Him. At That Point, He's In Business: Beethoven's Deafness, Goya's Deafness, Milton's Blindness, That Kind Of Thing.

I Can Offer You Only: This World Like A Knife

Wishin' Was Dyin' But I Gotta Make It All This Way To That Bed On These Feet.

Something Has Been Said For Sobriety But Very Little.