Live Not For Battles Won.

Books Are Meat And Medicine And Flame And Flight And Flower Steel, Stitch, Cloud And Clout, And Drumbeats On The Air.

Be Yourself. Don't Imitate Other Poets. You Are As Important As They Are.

My Last Defense / Is The Present Tense.

Say To Them, Say To The Down-keepers, The Sun-slappers, The Self-soilers, The Harmony-hushers, "even If You Are Not Ready For Day It Cannot Always Be Night." You Will Be Right. For That Is The Hard Home-run. Live Not For Battles Won. Live Not For The-end-of-the-song. Live In The Along.

I Think There Are Things For All Of Us To Do As Long As We're Here And We're Healthy.