The Lights Must Never Go

All Works Of Art Are Commissioned In The Sense That No Artist Can Create One By A Simple Act Of Will But Must Wait Until What He Believes To Be A Good Idea For A Work Comes To Him.

To Choose What Is Difficult All One's Days, As If It Were Easy, That Is Faith

The Center That I Cannot Find Is Known To My Unconscious Mind.

Sob, Heavy World Sob As You Spin, Mantled In Mist Remote From The Happy.

Most Poetry Is The Utterance Of A Man In Some State Of Passion, Love, Joy, Grief, Rage, Etc., And No Doubt This Is As It Should Be. But No Man Is Perpetually In A Passion And Those States In Which He Is Amused And Amusing, Detached And Irreverent, If Less Important, Are No Less Amusing. If There Were No Poets Who, Like Byron, Express These States, Poetry Would Lack Something.