“I always entertain great hopes.” — Robert Frost Quote

I always entertain great hopes.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

What we live by we die by.

The Telephone

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for the Rothschilds.

The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.