"Know that I write from the most comfortable quarters I have ever had in the United States. In a tranquil old city, wide stretched, tree-planted, with a few cows and carriages rolling through the sandy road, a red river with a tranquil little fleet of merchant men taking cargo, and tranquil ware-houses barricaded with packs of cotton;

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"You must believe: a poem is a holy thing -- a good poem, that is."
     -Theodore Roethke, On Poetry and Craft

People always think the greatest war is the one they are fighting at the moment, and when that is over they are more impressed with the wars of antiquity; but, even so, this war will prove, to all who look at the facts, that it was greater than the others ( Read more... )

Athenians: Hope, that comforter in danger! If one already has solid advantages to fall back upon, one can indulge in hope. It may do harm, but will not destroy one. But hope is by nature an expensive commodity, and those who are risking their all on one cast find out what it means only when they are already ruined; it never fails them in the ( Read more... )