I can still remember the feel in my hand of that most wonderful American coin ever minted, a nickel with a buffalo on one side and the head of an Indian on the other. That nickel was a daily proof of our country’s past. Bring it back!
Category Archive: 1908
Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.
The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that’s where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first air that the Christ Child breathed.
Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
I began to write poetry in high school, and would ride miles over sandy roads in the fine hills around Cedar Rapids, repeating the lines over and over until I had them right, making some of the rhythm of the horse help.